301 Quotes About Programming

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.

What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

Don't gloss over a routine or piece of code involved in the bug because you "know" it works. Prove it. Prove it in this context, with this data, with these boundary conditions.

Any organisation that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organisation's communication structure

The issue of finding the best possible answer or achieving maximum efficiency usually arises in industry only after serious performance or legal troubles.

Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle.

Programming is learnedby writing programs.

Does a pile even count as an organizational scheme? – It does! Just because something is simple doesn’t mean it isn’t a valid organizational scheme.

If you buy a 486 with a SuperVGA, you’ll get performance that knocks your socks off, especially if you run Windows.