Programming Quotes We Love
In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
— Douglas Adams
Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
— Alan Turing
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
— Pablo Picasso
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
— Edsger Dijkstra
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
— Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.
— Dennis Ritchie
A program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it.
— Edsger Dijkstra
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
— Richard Feynman
In programming the hard part isn’t solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve.
— Paul Graham
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
— John Johnson
The problem, once solved, will be simple.
— Thomas Edison
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.
— Ken Thompson
After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.
— The Tao of Programming by Geoffrey James
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
— Bob Dylan
Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.
— Dennis Ritchie
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Less is more and Worse is better.
— Richard Gabriel (Unix philosophy)
Do one thing well.
— Douglas McIlroy (Unix philosophy)
Simple is better than complex and Complex is better than complicated.
— The Zen of Python by Tim Peters
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
— Brian Kernighan
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
— Edsger Dijkstra
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence.
— Edsger Dijkstra
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
— The Tao of Programming by Geoffrey James
Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self.
— Damian Conway
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
— Martin Fowler
What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.
— Fred Brooks
Good software, like wine, takes time.
— Joel Spolsky
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline.
— Duke Ellington
Software is like sex, it's better when it's Free.
— Linus Torvalds
Free as in Freedom.
— Richard Stallman
Life is too short to run proprietary software.
— Bdale Garbee
You can’t trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
— Ken Thompson
The best way to predict the future is to implement it.
— David Heinemeier Hansson
Give me the command line and I shall move the world!
— Archimedes of Syracuse
References
Programming Quotes
The Tao of Programming by Geoffrey James
PEP 20: The Zen of Python
Programming Wisdom
What's your favourite quote about programming?
31 July 2019