301 Quotes About Programming

Programming is the immediate act of producing code. Software engineering is the set of policies, practices, and tools that are necessary to make that code useful for as long as it needs to be used and allowing collaboration across a team.

What I love about both programming and music is that they enable you to build incredibly creative, complex, and beneficial things seemingly from thin air -- no additional materials required, just your brain and a keyboard in front of you.

You can Change Your Organization or Change Your Organization

Code is read more than it is written.

What I love about both programming and music is that they enable you to build incredibly creative, complex, and beneficial things seemingly from thin air no additional materials required, just your brain and a keyboard in front of you.Programming and music also both allow for a deep, single-minded immersion in the creative process. They require you to be deeply focused and in the moment for everything to work well, and I find that state of flow to be immensely satisfying.

An individual block of code takes moments to write, minutes or hours to debug, and can last forever without being touched again. It’s when you or someone else visits code written yesterday or ten years ago that having code written in a clear, consistent style becomes extremely useful. Understandable code frees mental bandwidth from having to puzzle out inconsistencies, making it easier to maintain and enhance projects of all sizes.

For years, coders have been programming computers so that they perform repetitive tasks for us. Now they automate our repetitive thoughts.

In the end, if this book is anything, it is really just a good old-fashioned programming book.While a scientific topic may seed a chapter (Newtonian physics, cellular growth, evolution) orthe results might inspire an artistic project, the content itself will always boil down to the codeimplementation, with a particular focus on object-oriented programming.

No night of drinking or drugs or sex could ever compare to a long evening of productive hacking.