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Computer Programming Quotes & Sayings

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In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, "to be, or not to be, that is the question." In the 21st century, "to code, or not to code, that is the challenge. — Newton Lee

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets. — Shawn Fanning

GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers. — Raymond Simard

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college. — Masi Oka

A long descriptive name is better than a short enigmatic name. A long descriptive name is better than a long descriptive comment. — Robert C. Martin

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language. — Charles Simonyi

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do. — Donald Knuth

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute. — Donald Ervin Knuth

Never hesitate to ask a lesser person. — Confucius

Tests are stories we tell the next generation of programmers on a project. — Roy Osherove

This week Apple stores are holding free computer programming classes for children. Or as that's called in China, a job fair. — Conan O'Brien

Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power. — George Gilder

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. — Maya Lin

A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. — Arthur Bloch

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment. — Kent Beck

Higher-order functions allow us to abstract over actions, not just values. — Marijn Haverbeke

Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven — Charles Petzold

An interest in Star Trek and an antisocial lifestyle may not, in fact, be unassailable correlates of talent in computer programming. — Cordelia Fine

The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. — C.A.R. Hoare

meritocracies. Computer programming didn't operate as an old-boy network, — Anonymous

When I was a teenager, I was a huge computer nerd. I went to computer programming camp. I went to space camp. — Graham Moore

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer ... — Douglas Adams

Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design! — Frederick Lenz

It has to become second nature, for a programmer, to notice when a concept is begging to be abstracted into a new word. — Marijn Haverbeke

What I can't create I don't understand — Richard P. Feynman

In the happy land of elegant code and pretty rainbows, there lives a spoil-sport monster called inefficiency. — Marijn Haverbeke

Functions that create values are easier to combine in new ways than functions that directly perform side effects — Marijn Haverbeke

Internet! Is that thing still around? — Homer

BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing. — Seymour Papert

Distributed programming is the art of solving the same problem that you can solve on a single computer using multiple computers. — Mikito Takada

Computer programming is pretty much guaranteed income. I'm good at it, and I like it. — Andy Weir

Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. — Alan Kay

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. — Brian Kernighan