Habits Quote by Paul Graham

“Habits, not ideas, are the programming language of human beings”

— Danny Dover

“The problem that Dijkstra recognized, early on, was that programming is hard, and that programmers don’t do it very well.”

— Robert C. Martin

“We all program our gadgets- computers, mobiles; but we don't program our Mind in such a way that we can REJOICE and BE HAPPY.”

— rvm

“Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail.”

— Max Kanat-Alexander

“A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.”

— Arthur Bloch

“Anyway, in a world of cheap PCs and fast Internet links, we find pretty consistently that the only really limiting resource is skilled attention.”

— Eric S. Raymond

“In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.”

— Nicholas Carr

“As so often happens in computer science, we’re willing to sacrifice efficiency for generality.”

— Pedro Domingos

“Things have gotten faster but the software has gotten slower and buggier in the meantime.”

— Peter Seibel

“software alone is a commodity. There is nothing stopping anyone from copying the feature set, making it better, cheaper, and faster.”

— Alex Moazed

“Programming is the art of doing one thing at a time”

— Michael Feathers

“The only reason we were here was because nobody had yet optimized software for First Contact.”

— Peter Watts