Top programming Quotes Collection
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If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something betterCollection: Programming
Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected.Collection: Programming
Experience doesn't necessarily teach anything.Collection: Programming
Go isn't functional, it's pragmatical. Why pure paradigms like FP or OOP are always a must? (sigh)Collection: Programming
In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you.Collection: Programming
Programming in Go is like being young again (but more productive!).Collection: Programming
The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.Collection: Programming
I don't like programming. It's tedious.Collection: Programming
Perl programming is an *empirical* science!Collection: Programming
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.Collection: Programming
Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.Collection: Programming
Beauty is our business.Collection: Programming
There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.Collection: Programming
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.Collection: Programming
It’s harder to read code than to write it.Collection: Programming
Writing code is not production, it’s not always craftsmanship though it can be, it’s design.Collection: Programming
Indeed one of the best ways to deflect attacks is to make it look like they’re succeeding. It’s the software equivalent of playing dead.Collection: Programming
Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer’s standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products.Collection: Programming
I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits.Collection: Programming
I’ve known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.Collection: Programming
I don’t like the feeling, but I’ve got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer.Collection: Programming
Programming isn’t about what you know; it’s about what you can figure out.Collection: Programming
Pragmatic Programmers won’t sit idly by and watch their projects fall apart through neglect.Collection: Programming
We build our computers the way we build our cities – over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.Collection: Programming
There is always one more bug to fix.Collection: Programming
Programmers seem to be changing the world. It would be a relief, for them and for all of us, if they knew something about it.Collection: Programming
Coding like poetry should be short and concise.Collection: Programming
Don’t document bad code – rewrite it.Collection: Programming
Believe the terrain, not the map.Collection: Programming
An effective way to test code is to exercise it at its natural boundaries.Collection: Programming
God help us, we’re in the hands of engineers.Collection: Programming
I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed.Collection: Programming
Monty Python is, for reasons best known to nobody, rather popular with computer programmers. There’s even a programming language called Python, based on their sketches.Collection: Programming
Ask a programmer to review ten lines of code, he’ll find ten issues. Ask him to do five hundred lines, and he’ll say it looks good.Collection: Programming
An API that isn’t comprehensible isn’t usable.Collection: Programming
It’s better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.Collection: Programming
Tests are stories we tell the next generation of programmers on a project.Collection: Programming
Set your sights higher. Don’t think of yourself as a programmer at a specific company – after all, it’s not likely that you’ll be at the same place forever – but as a participating member of an industry. You are a craftsperson or an artist. You have something to share beyond the expense-reporting application you’re developing for your human resources department or the bugs you’ve got stacked up in your company’s issue-tracking system.Collection: Programming
What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.Collection: Programming
Quality is a product of a conflict between programmers and testers.Collection: Programming
Automated testing is a safety net that protects the program from its programmers.Collection: Programming
Good architecture makes the system easy to understand, easy to develop, easy to maintain, and easy to deploy. The ultimate goal is to minimize the lifetime cost of the system and to maximize programmer productivity.Collection: Programming
One difference between a smart programmer and a professional programmer is that the professional understands that clarity is king. Professionals use their powers for good and write code that others can understand.Collection: Programming
It is not the language that makes programs appear simple. It is the programmer that make the language appear simple!Collection: Programming
It is not enough for code to work. Code that works is often badly broken. Programmers who satisfy themselves with merely working code are behaving unprofessionally. They may fear that they don’t have time to improve the structure and design of their code, but I disagree. Nothing has a more profound and long-term degrading effect upon a development project than bad code.Collection: Programming
Low-level programming is good for the programmer’s soul.Collection: Programming
Because of the nature of Moore’s law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.Collection: Programming
Making one brilliant decision and a whole bunch of mediocre ones isn’t as good as making a whole bunch of generally smart decisions throughout the whole process.Collection: Programming
One of the big lessons of a big project is you don’t want people that aren’t really programmers programming, you’ll suffer for it!Collection: Programming
To be a hacker – when I use the term – is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.Collection: Programming