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"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." — Harold Abelson
"The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it." — Dennis Ritchie
"Talk is cheap. Show me the code." — Linus Torvalds
"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." — Martin Fowler
"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code." — John Johnson
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." — Oscar Wilde
"Java is to JavaScript what car is to Carpet." — Chris Heilmann
"Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad." — Cory House
"Fix the cause, not the symptom." — Steve Maguire
"Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treatment." — Kent Beck
"Simplicity is the soul of efficiency." — Austin Freeman
"Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable." — Ralph Johnson
"Make it work, make it right, make it fast." — Kent Beck
"Programming isn’t about what you know; it’s about what you can figure out." — Chris Pine
"Deleted code is debugged code." — Jeff Sickel
"The best error message is the one that never shows up." — Thomas Fuchs
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil." — Donald Knuth
"Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute." — Donald Knuth
"To iterate is human, to recurse divine." — L. Peter Deutsch
"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability." — Edsger Dijkstra
"It’s not a bug – it’s an undocumented feature." — Anonymous
"Good code is its own best documentation." — Steve McConnell
"Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming." — Brian Kernighan
"The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language." — Alan Kay
"Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday’s code." — Dan Salomon
"Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind." — Donald Knuth
"Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding." — Burt Rutan
"The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple." — Grady Booch
"The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before." — Bill Gates
"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." — Coco Chanel (applies to code too!)
"You don’t have to be a genius to code. You just need to be determined." — Unknown
"Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime." — Muhammad Waseem
"A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing." — Alan Perlis
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." — Leonardo da Vinci
"Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code." — Ellen Ullman
"Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better." — Bill Gates
"It’s not a bug, it’s a feature." — Anonymous
"You are not responsible for the bugs in your code. You are, however, responsible for fixing them." — Anonymous
"The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner." — Jim Highsmith
"If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy." — Donald Knuth
"Programming is like writing a book… except if you miss out a single comma on page 126 the whole thing makes no sense." — Unknown
"A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street." — Doug Linder
"It’s OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn’t need to figure out code. You should be able to read it." — Steve McConnell
"In programming the hard part isn’t solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve." — Paul Graham
"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." — Edward V Berard
"Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think." — Steve Jobs
"The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user." — C.A.R. Hoare
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." — Albert Einstein
"Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." — Rich Kulawiec
"Programming is not about typing, it’s about thinking." — Rich Hickey
"If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in." — Edsger Dijkstra
"The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly." — Donald Knuth
"Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code." — Edsger Dijkstra
"One man’s crappy software is another man’s full-time job." — Jessica Gaston
"Good code is short, simple, and symmetrical – the challenge is balancing those qualities." — Evan Czaplicki
"The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take." — Roy Carlson
"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
"A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want." — Niklaus Wirth
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots." — Rick Cook
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." — Alan Kay
"Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations." — Paul Rand
"Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible." — Alan Kay
"Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container." — Nathan Myhrvold
"Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay." — Lee Iacocca
"The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build." — Bjarne Stroustrup
"The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases." — Jon Bentley
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." — B.F. Skinner
"Good software, like wine, takes time." — Joel Spolsky
"If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it." — Linus Torvalds
"Give someone a program, you frustrate them for a day; teach them how to program, you frustrate them for a lifetime." — David Leinweber
"Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else." — Eagleson’s Law
"The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit." — Anonymous
"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." — Bill Gates
"Simplicity is the key to brilliance." — Bruce Lee
"The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements." — Brian Kernighan
"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late." — Seymour Cray
"It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer." — Albert Einstein
"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." — John Woods
"To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion." — Unknown
"If the code and the comments do not match, possibly both are incorrect." — Norm Schryer
"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it." — Albert Einstein
"The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity, of mastering multitude and avoiding its bastard chaos as effectively as possible." — Edsger Dijkstra
"The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice." — Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
"It is not the language that makes programs appear simple. It is the programmer that makes the language appear simple!" — Robert C. Martin
"A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street." — Doug Linder
"Programming is breaking of one big impossible task into several very small possible tasks." — Jazzwant
"Never stop learning." — Unknown
"Great software is the result of great programmers, not great processes." — Anonymous
"If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough." — Albert Einstein
"Don’t comment bad code—rewrite it." — Brian Kernighan
"Simple code is hard to write." — Anonymous
"Software undergoes beta testing shortly before it’s released. Beta is Latin for 'still doesn’t work'." — Anonymous
"Knowledge is power." — Francis Bacon
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." — Carl Sagan
"A bug in the hand is better than one as yet undetected." — Anonymous
"The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state." — John Ousterhout
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." — Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
"Programming isn’t about what you know; it’s about what you can figure out." — Chris Pine
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." — Lao Tzu