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.
Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing.Gerald Weinberg
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Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.John Carmack
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First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.John Johnson
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Marketing is the obverse of programming.John McAfee
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You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.John Romero
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Sometimes it's better to leave something alone, to pause, and that's very true of programming.Joyce Wheeler
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Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treatment.Kent Beck
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Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.Linus Torvalds
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Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.Louis Srygley
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Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.Martin Fowler
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Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.Michael Sinz
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Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples. Niklaus Wirth
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Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.Niklaus Wirth
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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.Oscar Wilde
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Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.Ralph Johnson
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Programming is a pretty tricky thing to start learning. You need to combine it with comedy to get a wider audience.Simone Giertz