Best 218 quotes in «programming quotes» category

Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

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

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

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

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

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

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

I skip through the programming to watch the commercials.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

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

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.

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

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.

Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.

Software sucks because users demand it to.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

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

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

Programming in Basic causes brain damage.

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

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 is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

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

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

Television has certainly become a wasteland of quality programming.

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.

The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.

[The Internet] is a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.