Computer Programming Quotes
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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
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
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
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
When I was a teenager, I was a huge computer nerd. I went to computer programming camp. I went to space camp.
— Graham Moore
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
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
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
— Brian Kernighan