Quotes

Martin Golding:

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

Linus Torvalds:

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

L. Peter Deutsch:

To iterate is human, to recurse divine.

Larry Wall:

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

Brian W. Kernighan:

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.

Randall E. Stross:

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:

La perfection est atteinte, non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer.

Eric S. Raymond:

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

John Johnson:

First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.

Donald Knuth:

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

Albert Einstein

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.