Programming Quotes
Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. --Melvin E. Conway ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not. --Benjamin Brewster ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. --Edsger Dijkstra ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --Edsger Dijkstra ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet. --Chris Heilmann ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
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 ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code. --Bill Harlan ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better. --E.W. Djikstra ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
A common fallacy is to assume authors of incomprehensible code will be able to express themselves clearly in comments. --Kevlin Henney ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
The lesson is: Even if you know exactly what is going on in your system, measure performance, don't speculate. You'll learn something, and nine times out of ten, it won't be that you were right! --Ron Jeffries ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. --Antoine de Saint Exupéry ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer. --Filipe Fortes ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
Good code is its own best documentation. --Steve McConnell ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
I'm a victim of Developaralysis: the crippling sense that the software industry is evolving so fast that no one person can possibly keep up. --Jon Evans ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months. --Fred Brooks ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
Design patterns should not be applied indiscriminately. Often they achieve flexibility and variability by introducing additional levels of indirection. A design pattern should only be applied when the flexibility it affords is actually needed. --Erich Gamma ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life. --Walter O'Brien ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time. --Tom Cargill ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
Reducing a product's definition to a list of features and functions ignores the real opportunity - orchestrating technological capability to serve human needs and goals. --Alan Cooper ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
One of the best programming skills you can have is knowing when to walk away for awhile. --Oscar Godson ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
I think the lack of reusability comes in object-oriented languages, not in functional languages. Because the problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle. --Joe Armstrong ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
You start digging in the code. The more you dig, the more stuff you turn up. Eventually you dig yourself into a hole you can’t get out of. To avoid digging your own grave, refactoring must be done systematically. Eric Gamma ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
Do not use humans for jobs computers can do better - this is a waste of human energy and creativity, the only real resource on this planet, and demeans the human spirit. --J. Paul Morrison ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
Quality is the ally of schedule and cost, not their adversary. If we have to sacrifice quality to meet schedule, it's because we are doing the job wrong from the very beginning. --James A. Ward ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort. --John Ruskin ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case. --Francis Glassborow ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
Software and cathedrals are much the same. First we build them, then we pray. --Sam Redwine ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years. --Tony Hoare ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. --Donald E. Knuth ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
Developers are drawn to complexity like moths to a flame, frequently with the same result. --Neal Ford ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine. --Alan Turing ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
Don't be (too) clever. My point was to discourage overly clever code because 'clever code' is hard to write, easy to get wrong, harder to maintain, and often no faster than simpler alternatives because it can be hard to optimize. --Bjarne Stroustrup ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself. --Alan Cooper ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes. --Richard Hamming ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
The code you write makes you a programmer. The code you delete makes you a good one. The code you don't have to write makes you a great one. --Mario Fusco ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony Number 9. -Erwin Dieterich ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
If you can get today’s work done today, but you do it in such a way that you can’t possibly get tomorrow’s work done tomorrow, then you lose. --Martin Fowler ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. --Nathaniel S. Borenstein ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. --Emo Philips ::: spoiler More info This post is created by a bot. If you want to contribute to this community, please take a look at the sidebar :::
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