Favorite Programming Quotes
The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time…The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.
Tom Cargill
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
Larry Wall
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian W. Kernighan
Once a new technology starts rolling, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.
Stewart Brand
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
The hardest part of design … is keeping features out.
Donald Norman
Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.
Ralph Johnson
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
Software and cathedrals are much the same – first we build them, then we pray.
Sam Redwine
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we’ve finished building it.
Anonymous Consultant
The software isn’t finished until the last user is dead.
Anonymous Support Group Member
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous Technical Trainer
Programming is 10% science, 20% ingenuity, and 70% getting the ingenuity to work with the science.
Anonymous Scientist
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Anonymous Hack Actor
Bad code isn’t bad, its just misunderstood.
Anonymous Code Behaviorist
It is easier to measure something than to understand what you have measured.
Anonymous Analyst
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous Scheduler
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous Linguist
Benchmarks don’t lie, but liars do benchmarks.
Anonymous Tester
Why do we never have time to do it right, but always have time to do it over?
Anonymous Code Monkey
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“Software and cathedrals are much the same – first we build them, then we pray.” is a quote from me (Samuel T. Redwine, Jr.) made at the 4th International Software Process Workshop, Moretonhampstead, U.K., 11-13 May 1988 and printed in its Proceedings.
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“I would love to change the world but they won’t give me the source code”
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January 6th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Great collection.
January 6th, 2010 at 8:29 pm
good quotes
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