301 Quotes About Programming

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Code is there to explain the comments to the computer.

You can program a computer to make mistakes, and you do it not by crossing wires, but by manipulating the 'language' you teach it to 'think' in.

The real nightmare, worse than the one in which the Big Machine wants to kill you, is the one in which it sees you as irrelevant, or not even as a discrete thing to know.

Platforms don't look like how they work and don't work like how they look.

If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

tombout attributes, chattr is one of magic, It's still immutable whoever you're force as root.

Also, look for “floating alters.” These are not deliberately created parts of the system, but alters that were accidentally split off at the same time as others.