Programming Quote by Paul D. Tieger

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

— Bill Gates

“Anyone who has ever seen a programmer at work... knows that programming itself, if the programmer is given the chance to do it his…

— Dave Hoover

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

— Donald Knuth

The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones.

— Terry Winograd

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

— Nicholas Negroponte

Programming is an explanatory activity.

— Roman Harper

My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for…

— Seymour Papert

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful…

— Bill Gates

By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

— Donald Knuth

To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.

— Grace Hopper

“Programming is the act of installing internal, pre-established reactions to external stimuli so that a person will automatically react in a predetermined manner to…

— Arauna Morgan

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

— Edsger Dijkstra