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
