Best Programming Quotations

Best Programming Quotations :

 

 A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.   -- Doug Linder, systems administrator

A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use. If the tool is a programming language this influence is, whether we like it or not, an influence on our thinking habits.   -- Edsger Dijkstra, computer scientist

Being abstract is something profoundly different from being vague... The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.   -- Edsger Dijkstra

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.   -- Edsger Dijkstra

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.   -- Bjarne Stroustrup, developer of the C++ programming language

Commentary: most debugging problems are fixed easily; identifying the location of the problem is hard.   -- unknown

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.   -- Bill Clinton, former President of the United States

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).   -- Eric S. Raymond, programmer and advocate of open source software, from The Cathedral and the Bazaar

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, software engineer and author, from Code Complete

Hey! It compiles! Ship it!   -- unknown

Inside every well-written large program is a well-written small program.   -- Charles Antony Richard Hoare, computer scientist

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 S. Borenstein, computer scientist

Managing programmers is like herding cats.   -- unknown

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.   -- unknown

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.   -- Edsger Dijkstra

The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take.   -- Roy Carlson, University of Wisconsin

Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning.   -- unknown

There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses.   -- Bjarne Stroustrup