Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning. — Nicholas Negroponte
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books. — Alan Turing
Web programming is the science of coming up with increasingly complicated ways of concatenating strings. — Greg Brockman
Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures. — Douglas Crockford
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. — Dennis Ritchie
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. — Brian Kernighan
There was something amazingly enticing about programming. — Vinton Cerf
One trick to programming faster is to do less in your head & run the code more. — Greg Brockman
Coding is the language of the future, and every girl should learn it. As I've learned from watching girls grow and learn in our classrooms, coding is fun, collaborative and creative. — Reshma Saujani
The hottest new programming language is English. — Andrej Karpathy
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. — Edsger Dijkstra
Writing code is both focusing and unreasonably fun. — Greg Brockman
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. — Seth Lloyd
Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains. — Bill Gates
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. — Hal Abelson
Short Programming Quotes
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics. — Richard P. Feynman
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. — John Von Neumann
Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program — Nancy Pelosi
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. — 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
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government. — Tacitus
Java is C++ without the guns, clubs and knives. — James Gosling
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein
For many phenomena, 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes. — Joseph M. Juran
Programming Image Quotes
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. — Milton Friedman
My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program. — Mark Zuckerberg
Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours. — Hanoi Hannah
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. — Kent Beck
It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant. — Katarina Witt
It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color. — Cecilia Bartoli
War is just one more big government program. — Joseph Sobran
C Programming Quotes
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
I've noticed that just about every time I find a large program with known glitches that no one seems able to fix, that program is written in C and is likely written by a programming team in a remote location. — Jerry Pournelle
Teaching my kids programming on an Apple c is like kung fu training in the primitive wilderness. — John Carmack
C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. — Dennis Ritchie
The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central. — Dennis Ritchie
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything. — Larry Wall
I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. — Alan Kay
As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way. — Brian Kernighan
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
My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes. — Bram Cohen
Computer Programming Quotes
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
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
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. — Edsger Dijkstra
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler
Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. — Linus Torvalds
Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind. — Donald Knuth
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
Programming Languages Quotes
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
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
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. — Richard E. Pattis
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. — Alan Kay
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. — Seymour Cray
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
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
Programming Funny Quotes
A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. — Doug Linder
Life is funny. I’d applied to the wrong graduate program, but that eventually led me to the right grad program. — Michael J. Massimino
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there. — Gordon Bell
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. — Robert Sewell
The 12-step chocolate program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE! — Terry Moore
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. — Robert Coveyou
It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes. — Keith Braithwaite
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do — Dennis Ritchie
Love Programming Quotes
I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming. — Kathy Griffin
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
We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor. — Shane Claiborne
I love all the shows that encourage people to love, appreciate and help animals. There are more programs about animals than ever, and that pleases me. — Doris Day
I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room. — Bill Nye
Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with the capacity to feel, both physically and emotionally. — Kat Von D
Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression. — Judy Collins
I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that. — R. Kelly
You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming. — Marshall Sylver
Java Programming Quotes
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
Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program. — Ronald Reagan
Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious... Patients are people who have had too much programming - so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves. — Milton H. Erickson
Don't just buy a new video game, make one.
Don't just download the latest app, help design it.
Don't just play on your phone, program it. — Barack Obama
Believing isn't thinking, but we've been programmed to believe that believing is thinking. To use our intelligence to think means we're keeping the energy active, we're thinking, we're really using the power of our intelligence in a thinking way. But when we've been programmed to believe, we're no longer thinking, because energy flows. — John Trudell
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics, for statistics, for all the "hard" subjects.... In short, I believe more than ever that programming should be a key part of the intellectual development of people growing up. — Seymour Papert
If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life. — Gus Grissom
Everything you stand for, believe in, experience and aspire to is the result of thought. And thought is destructive because it is nothing more than a protective mechanism, programmed to protect its own interests at all costs. — U.G. Krishnamurti
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents. — Conrad Burns
What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners who are leading the fight for justice and better race relations in these crucial days — Septima Poinsette Clark
Programming productivity is a precious and fragile thing stemming from great focus. Maintaining it requires active protection from the individual and organization. — Greg Brockman
The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense. — Charles Foster Bass
And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the needs of preparation and warning, counterintelligence and support to the operational war fighter. — Stephen Cambone
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