301 Quotes About Programming

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

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I'll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems.

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.

On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think

if you can write "hello world" you can change the world

AI is the transformer of civilization.

we are writing our own ‪#‎karma‬! I mean my test cases