301 Quotes About Programming

You haven't created a new body for me. I'm electricity, or light, or whatever bullshit you said I am. Just some complicated programming.

Think twice, code once.

Programming is not easy like Sunday morning, it is silent poetry.

Programming is usually taught by examples.

Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day.Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.

A good program must be written many times. This is true of the programs we show. The first draft may not clearly separate out the concerns, but by making that draft the programmer learns the structure of the problem. We will show two different implementations, which will reveal the evolution of the program as we identify shortcomings in our draft.

Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.

It has all the right ingredients: rich contents, friendly, personal language, subtle humor, the right references, and a plethora of pointers to resources.

Programming is the act of installing internal, pre-established reactions to external stimuli so that a person will automatically react in a predetermined manner to things like an auditory, visual or tactile signal or perform a specific set of actions according to a date and/or time.