“Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad.” - Cory House
“So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things.” — Ryan Singer
“Programming is 10% science, 20% ingenuity, and 70% getting the ingenuity to work with the science.” — Unknown
“It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.” — Richard Hamming
“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.” — Dennis Ritchie
“One irresponsible programmer can keep any five top-notch programmers busy.” — Eric Evans
“So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things.” — Ryan Singer
“Remember, good code is like a good joke: It needs no explanation.” — Unknown
“Inside every well-written large program is a well-written small program.” — C. A. R. Hoare
- “Coding isn’t the poor handmaiden of design or analysis. Coding is where your fuzzy ideas awaken in the harsh dawn of reality.” — Kent Beck
- “The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late” — Seymour Cray
- "Errors should never pass silently, unless explicitly silenced." -Tim Peters (The Zen of Python)
- "To be a programmer long term, you have to love change. You can't just tolerate it, you have to love it"
- "Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.” - Chris Pine
- "Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding." - Burt Rutan
- "The best error message is the one that never shows up." - Thomas Fuchs
- “The most damaging phrase in the language is.. it's always been done this way” - Grace Hopper
- "Don't write better error messages, write code that doesn't need them." - Jason C. McDonald
- “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” ― Martin Fowler
- “How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru
- “Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.” ― Edward V. Berard
- “Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.”― Paul Graham
- “If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.” ― Donald Knuth
- “Code is read more than it is written.” ― Daniel Roy Greenfeld, Audrey Roy Greenfeld
- “It's not a bug; it's an undocumented feature.”― Anonymous
- “Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.” - Brian Kernigan
- “The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.” - Grady Booch
- “Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job.” - Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering
- “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”-Bill Gates
- “First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.” - John Johnson
- “The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.” - Anonymous
- “Good code is its own best documentation.” - Steve McConnell
- “Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.” - Eagleson’s Law
- “Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case.” - Francis Glassborow
- “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
- “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
- “If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.” - Edsger W. Dijkstra
- “I don’t care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!” - Vidiu Platon
- “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” - Charles H. Duell
- “Coding is not just code, that is a live thing to serve everyone!” ― Ming Song
- “User interface is the process of shifting from chaotic complexity to elegant simplicity.” ― Akshat Paul
- “Abstraction is the elimination of the irrelevant and the amplification of the essential.” ― Robert C. Martin
- “Write a program in efficient way as you write for kernel scheduler” ― Ahmad Moawad
- “The happiest moment i felt; is that moment when i realized my ability to create.” ― Dr. Hazem Ali
- “Think twice, code once.” ― Waseem Latif
- “Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.” ― Louis Srygley
- “Every programmer is an author.” ― Sercan Leylek
- “Programming is breaking of one big impossible task into several very small possible tasks.” ― Jazzwant
- “Think like a fundamentalist, code like a hacker.” ― Erik Meijer
- “Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.” ― Edsger W. Dijkstra