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Program Quotes

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

"First Monday Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates free software developers?". Interview with Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, firstmonday.org. March 2, 1998.

I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?

Lewis Carroll (1869). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.133

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

Linux kernel mailing list message, lkml.org. August 25, 2000.

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

YouTube Chanel "Code.org" / "What Most Schools Don't Teach", www.youtube.com. February 26, 2013.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

"Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Mind - A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, Volume 59, No. 236, p. 450, 1950.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.315

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.129, Springer Science & Business Media

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

"Excel HSC Softw Design&Devel + Cards SG". Book by Geoff Lancaster, 2001.

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.24, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.

Ellen Ullman (2012). “Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents”, p.24, Pushkin Press