The hottest new programming language is English. — Andrej Karpathy
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do — Dennis Ritchie
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. — Dennis Ritchie
C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around. — Dennis Ritchie
When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop. — Alan Perlis
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
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
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. — J. G. Ballard
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
I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax. — Dennis Ritchie
I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through. — James Gosling
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
Short Programming Languages Quotes
If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala — James Gosling
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. — Dennis Ritchie
There was something amazingly enticing about programming. — Vinton Cerf
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. — Alan Kay
Teaching my kids programming on an Apple c is like kung fu training in the primitive wilderness. — John Carmack
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle
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
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
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
Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
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
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler
Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind. — Donald Knuth
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
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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
Java Programming Quotes
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. — Robert Sewell
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
The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless.
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
In your silence, when there are no words, no language, nobody else is present, you are getting in tune with existence.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end. — Kahlil Gibran
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. — Brian Kernighan
Experience comes from bad judgment. — Mark Twain
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. — Jacques Barzun
Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach. — Albert Einstein
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. — Albert Einstein
Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration. — Niklaus Wirth
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
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language. — Bjarne Stroustrup
The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity. — Tony Hoare
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. — Edsger Dijkstra
The greatest single programming language ever designed — Alan Kay
The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language. — Donald Knuth
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