Art Quote by Per Brinch Hansen

Programming is an explanatory activity.

— Roman Harper

The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer…

— Anonymous

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

— Donald Knuth

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

— Donald Knuth

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

— Alan Perlis

Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of…

— Tim O'Reilly

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

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

— Max Kanat-Alexander

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

— Michael Feathers

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

— Russell Banks

When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings are going…

— Donald Knuth

Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

— Alan Turing