301 Quotes About Programming

Web development is difficult, only then it is fun to do. You just have to set your standards. If it were to be easy, would anyone do it?

The only way to go fast, is to go well.

Programming is about managing complexity: the complexity of the problem, laid upon the complexity of the machine. Because of this complexity, most of our programming projects fail.

If you have to spend effort looking at a fragment of code and figuring out what it's doing, then you should extract it into a function and name the function after the "what".

When it comes to writing code, the number one most important skill is how to keep a tangle of features from collapsing under the weight of its own complexity.

Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship.

If oy have to spend effort looking at a fragment of code and figuring out what it's doing, then you should extract it into a function and name the function after the "what".

Virding's First Rule of Programming:Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang.

There are many terrible mistakes to make in program design, and you should go ahead and make them so that you understand them. A sense of what a good program looks like is developed in practice, not learned from a list of rules.