Quotes (Computer)

We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer:
laziness, impatience, and hubris.

- Larry Wall -

Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.

- Edward V Berard -

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs,
then programming must be the process of putting them in.

- Edsger Dijkstra -

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

- Rick Osborne -

There are only two kinds of programming languages:
those people always bitch about and those nobody uses.

- Bjarne Stroustrup -

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away.

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry -

When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.

- Richard Pattis -

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.

- P. J. Plauger -

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand.
Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

- Martin Fowler -

To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.

- Dan Rather -

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

- Joseph Weizenbaum -

To iterate is human, to recurse divine.

- L. Peter Deutsch -

Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

- Clark's law, J. Porter Clark -