Murat Sahin

Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it's bad.

— Cory House

First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.

— John Johnson

The best error message is the one that never shows up.

— Thomas Fuchs

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

— C.A.R. Hoare

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

— Martin Golding

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

— Linus Torvalds

On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament]: 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

— Charles Babbage

To iterate is human, to recurse divine.

— L. Peter Deutsch

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

— Seymour Cray

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

— Alan Kay

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

— Larry Wall

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.

— George Carrette

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.

— Donald Knuth