Best 218 quotes in «programming quotes» category

Go is no Erlang, Smalltalk or Scheme, nothing pure. But it works great and is fun!

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.

Good code is its own best documentation.

Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

Good software, like wine, takes time.

I don't like programming. It's tedious.

If you don’t take responsibility for programming yourself, then someone else will.

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.

I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.

Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

If they can shut down ABC News and ABC network programming just because they don't agree on something, it makes you wonder

In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you.

In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

Instructional programming is really great. To me, it's very enjoyable to watch a process.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

Ive enjoyed programming on NPR, but were broke and therefore all spending must be reduced.

I skip through the programming to watch the commercials.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven

Optimization hinders evolution.

Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.

Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.

Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.

Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied.

Programming in Go is like being young again (but more productive!).

Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.

Programming in Basic causes brain damage.

Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick

Software sucks because users demand it to.

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.