Before software should be reusable, it should be usable
~ Ralph Johnson
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
~ Albert Einstein
A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street
~ Doug Linder
Everybody should learn to program a computer because it teaches you how to think.
~ Steve Jobs
Students who study computer science unlock a world of opportunities for themselves
~ John Deasy
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand
~ Martin Fowler
Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday’s code
~ Dan Salomon
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in
~ Edsger Dijkstra
The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.
~ Bill Gates
Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards
~ Alan Bennett
In a room full of top software designers, if two agree on the same thing, that’s a majority
~ Bill Curtis
If you think you are worth what you know, you are very wrong. Your knowledge today does not have much value beyond a couple of years. Your value is what you can learn and how easily you can adapt to the changes this profession brings so often.
~ Jose M. Aguilar
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute
~ Abelson and Sussman
Commenting your code is like cleaning your bathroom — you never want to do it, but it really does create a more pleasant experience for you and your guests.
~ Ryan Campbell
Looking at code you wrote more than two weeks ago is like looking at code you are seeing for the first time.
~ Dan Hurvitz
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes
~ Oscar Wilde
There is an easy way and a hard way. The hard part is finding the easy way
~ Unknown
Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file
~ Louis Srygley
Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life
~ Michael Sinz
Don't worry if it doesn't work right.If everything did, you'd be out of a job
Code always does what you want and people don't
~ Mark Zuckerberg
The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You gonna look like you have magic powers compared to anybody else
~ Gabe Newell
I taught myself how to program computers when I was a kid, bought my first computer when I was 10 and sold my first commercial program when I was 12.
~ Elon Musk
