There was something amazingly enticing about programming. — Vinton Cerf
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books. — Alan Turing
If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets. — Shawn Fanning
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs. — Joseph Weizenbaum
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. — Dennis Ritchie
Web programming is the science of coming up with increasingly complicated ways of concatenating strings. — Greg Brockman
Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning. — Nicholas Negroponte
Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry — Ted Nelson
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. — Seth Lloyd
The hottest new programming language is English. — Andrej Karpathy
My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program. — Mark Zuckerberg
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. — Edsger Dijkstra
Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn — Stephen Hawking
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. — Brian Kernighan
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic. — Eric Allin Cornell
Short Computer Programming Quotes
Teaching my kids programming on an Apple c is like kung fu training in the primitive wilderness. — John Carmack
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. — Hal Abelson
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. — Alan Kay
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. — Dennis Ritchie
One trick to programming faster is to do less in your head & run the code more. — Greg Brockman
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do — Dennis Ritchie
I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic. — Grace Hopper
Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind. — Donald Knuth
Top 10 Computer Programming Quotes
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. — John Von Neumann
Learning is never done without errors and defeat. — Vladimir Lenin
Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ — Eleanor Roosevelt
Most of the 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
When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music. — Martin Garrix
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. — Edsger Dijkstra
Java is C++ without the guns, clubs and knives. — James Gosling
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off. — Bjarne Stroustrup
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 Kernighan
The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry. — Henry Petroski
Computer Programming Image Quotes
Beautiful Quotes
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself — Rumi
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. — Bernard Meltzer
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg
I've had good times and I've had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I'm in because it could steer me into a depressed state. — Kevin Gates
No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you. — Meek Mill
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. — Ann Landers
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. — Winston Churchill
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. My teacher was Ferruccio Cusinati — Maria Callas
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
Computer Programming Work Quotes
Computer scientists have so far worked on developing powerful programming languages that make it possible to solve the technical problems of computation. Little effort has gone toward devising the languages of interaction. — Donald A. Norman
Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated. — Edsger Dijkstra
Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. — Walter Chrysler
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. — Leonardo da Vinci
In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming. — Iain Banks
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. — David Parnas
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs. — John Backus
Computer Language Quotes
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler
Code never lies, comments sometimes do. — Ron Jeffries
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. — George Boole
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall
Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead consumers of computer science. — Maria Klawe
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. — Richard E. Pattis
Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr — Marshall McLuhan
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. — Seymour Cray
Programming Languages Quotes
C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. — Dennis Ritchie
Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, "How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?" Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer. — Steve McConnell
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. — Richard Hamming
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. — Robert Sewell
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary. — Niels Bohr
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. — Robert Coveyou
Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success. — Tom DeMarco
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. — Nathaniel Borenstein
It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done. — Erik Naggum
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. — Donald Knuth
Computer Software Quotes
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. — Edsger Dijkstra
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. — Greg Egan
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. — Craig Reucassel
The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog: it shits on the floor, it destroys things, and stinks - the novice-friendly software embodies the opposite of what computer people have dreamed of for decades: artificial stupidity. It's more human. — Erik Naggum
Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover. — Bill Gates
If the genome were a computer, the epigenome would be the software. It instructs the newly divided cells on what type of cells they should be and what they should remain, sometimes for decades, as in the case of individual brain neurons and certain immune cells. — David Sinclair
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended. — Wietse Venema
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. — Grady Booch
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. — William J. Clinton
Computer Science Quotes
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. — Lewis Thomas
Cryptocurrency is the first practical solution to a longstanding problem in computer science called the Byzantine Generals Problem. — Nick Szabo
I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company. — Balaji Srinivasan
Atlantis was a highly evolved civilization where the sciences and arts were far more advanced than one might guess. Atlantis was technologically advanced in genetic engineering, computer science, inter-dimensional physics, and artistically developed with electronic music and crystal art forms. — Frederick Lenz
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. — Kent Beck
Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet. — Gerald J. Popek
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur. — Rudy Rucker
Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random — Donald Knuth
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. — Eric S. Raymond
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. — Howard Aiken
Java Programming Quotes
Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either. — Guido van Rossum
In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages. — Guido van Rossum
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious. — Bjarne Stroustrup
While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers. — Bill Gates
(In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong. — Bill Gates
A class, in Java, is where we teach objects how to behave. — Richard E. Pattis
When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, 'Convert this to Android format.' — Larry Ellison
We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the Oracle Database 12c, and our programming language brand is this thing called Java. — Larry Ellison
Programming Funny Quotes
A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. — Doug Linder
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month. — Wernher Von Braun
I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social. — Woody Allen
Software Development Quotes
Deep Learning is a form of human-assisted but mostly constraint-driven software development. It works because a particular smooth relaxation of program space allows a surprisingly efficient and effective local search. Something like that, my favorite definition. — Andrej Karpathy
The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries. — Marshall McLuhan
And from the time I was a kid, I've had this internal monologue roaring through my head, which doesn't stop - unless I'm asleep. I'm sure every person has this; it's just that my monologue is particularly loud. And particularly troublesome. I'm constantly asking myself questions. And the problem with that is that your brain is like a computer: If you ask a question, it's programmed to respond, whether there's an answer or not. I'm constantly weighing everything in my mind and trying to predict how my actions will influence events. Or maybe manipulate events are the more appropriate words. It's like playing a game of chess with your own life. And I hate fucking chess! — Jordan Belfort
Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. — Linus Torvalds
Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. A programmer who subconsciously views himself as an artist will enjoy what he does and will do it better. — Donald Knuth
Humans program each other by prompt engineering too, so it's interesting to see that form of programming becoming increasingly prevalent with computers. Programming turns into a kind of applied psychology of neural nets, biological or synthetic. — Andrej Karpathy
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. — Donald Knuth
The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesnt teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation. — Sherry Turkle
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. — Edsger Dijkstra
You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time. — Bertrand Meyer
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