301 Quotes About Programming

Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

When in doubt, use brute force.

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.