Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old programming quotes, programming sayings, and programming proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
In programming the hard part isn't solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve.Paul Graham
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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.Bjarne Stroustrup
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Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design.Joel Spolsky
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Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.Richard Stallman
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Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.Donald Knuth
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Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.Chris Pine
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You should imagine variables as tentacles, rather than boxes. They do not contain values; they grasp them two variables can refer to the same value.Marijn Haverbeke
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.Alan Perlis
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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.Alan Turing
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It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.Steve McConnell
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Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.Donald Knuth
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Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick.Charles Petzold
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Programming is the art of doing one thing at a timeMichael C. Feathers
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Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.Nicholas Negroponte
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There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.C.A.R. Hoare
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Programming is not easy like Sunday morning, it is silent poetry.Waseem Latif
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It's harder to read code than to write it.Joel Spolsky
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Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.Henry Spencer
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Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.Doron Zeilberger
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Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.Bill Gates
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In some ways, programming is like painting. You start with a blank canvas and certain basic raw materials. You use a combination of science, art, and craft to determine what to do with them.Andrew Hunt
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Programming language is very specific to instructing a computer to do a particular structure of a sequence. It's the very way you tell the machine what you want it to do.Brian Kernighan
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Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.Burt Rutan
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Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad.Cory House
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The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.Dennis Ritchie
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Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.Donald Knuth
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The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.Donald Knuth
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Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.Edsger Dijkstra
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Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code. Ellen Ullman
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First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.George Carrette