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
There was something amazingly enticing about programming. — Vinton Cerf
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
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. — Seymour Cray
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. — Seymoure Cray
Writing code is both focusing and unreasonably fun. — Greg Brockman
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
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. — Seth Lloyd
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. — Dennis Ritchie
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
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler
One trick to programming faster is to do less in your head & run the code more. — Greg Brockman
Short Programming Funny Quotes
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. — Hal Abelson
Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication. — Boris Beizer
A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. — Doug Linder
Teaching my kids programming on an Apple c is like kung fu training in the primitive wilderness. — John Carmack
My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program. — Mark Zuckerberg
If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets. — Shawn Fanning
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. — Brian Kernighan
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do — Dennis Ritchie
Code never lies, comments sometimes do. — Ron Jeffries
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. — Kent Beck
To thrive in life you need three bones. A wishbone. A backbone. And a funny bone.
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
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different.
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
Java is C++ without the guns, clubs and knives. — James Gosling
I tried to be normal once. Worst to minutes of my life.
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
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. — Edsger Dijkstra
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall
It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn't let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now... whaddaya know, every day I'm in a calico dress, basically, so it's kind of funny. — Chloe Sevigny
Life is funny. I’d applied to the wrong graduate program, but that eventually led me to the right grad program. — Michael J. Massimino
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 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
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
When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop. — Alan Perlis
Know what you're talking about. — George H. W. Bush
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
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. — Albert Einstein
Nine people can't make a baby in a month. — Fred Brooks
Any fool can use a computer. Many do. — Ted Nelson
Software sucks because users demand it to. — Nathan Myhrvold
If at first you don't succeed, Call an airstrike. — Banksy
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. — Alan Perlis
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. — Stan Kelly-Bootle
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later — Fred Brooks
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free. — Steve McConnell
Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. — Fred Brooks
Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is. — Larry Wall
After the 1984 Summer Olympics, Reagan wanted to add the U.S. volleyball team to his Cabinet. He figured if they can't shove his programs down Congress' throat, nobody can. — Bob Hope
They want the federal government controlling the Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program. — George W. Bush
I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs. — Maurice Wilkes
Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel. — Jim Ryun
I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer. — Douglas Adams
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