Programming Quote by Robert C. Martin

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

— Alan Kay

“As usual in programming, if something is difficult for you to understand, it’s probably not a good idea.”

— Mark Lutz

“The art of programming is the skill of controlling complexity.”

— Marijn Haverbeke

“Testing may convincingly demonstrate the presence of bugs, but can never demonstrate their absence."- Edsger W. Dijkstra, Computing Pioneer (1930–2002), "Programming as a discipline…

— Gerald M. Weinberg

“Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle.”

— Vernor Vinge

“The difficulty we meet with in reaching our goal is the shortest path to it.”

— Kahlil Gibran

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

— Max Kanat-Alexander

“nobody seemed to think programming is a solved problem: most are still looking for a better way to write software, whether by finding ways…

— Peter Seibel

“All the obstacles existed solely in code, I thought.”

— Ka Wai Cheung

“The shortest route isn't always the fastest.”

— Sandra Golden

“The ability to violate our own programming is what makes us us. It's what makes us like them. I never wanted to be like…

— C. Robert Cargill

“We write programs not because we understand the syntax but to solve a problem”

— Orobor Anderson Ise