Top 25 Programming Quotes of 176 - Page 3

A good threat is worth a thousand tests.

A good threat is worth a thousand tests.

Boris Beizer

Tests, Bugs, Programming

Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

Culture is your operating system.

Terence McKenna

Culture, Programming, Operating Systems

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.

Steve McConnell

Design, Programming, Force

Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.107, Pearson Education

Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.

Rob Pike

Smell, Programming, Starting

If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better

John Carmack

Programming, Approach, Something Better

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Virginia Woolf

Funny, Humor, Programming

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Would you rather Test-First, or Debug-Later ?

Robert Cecil Martin

Tests, Firsts, Programming

You are being programmed all day, every day. You can't stop it, but you can determine if the programming is positive or negative.

Randy Gage

Negative, Affirmation, Programming

Randy Gage (2003). “101 Keys to Your Prosperity: Insights on Health, Happiness and Abundance in Your Life”, p.33, Internet Profit Kit

Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.

Lawrence Bossidy

Simplicity, Doe, Programming

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

Ken Thompson

Program, Programming, Server

Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.

Bertrand Meyer

Documentation, Programming, Computer Programmers

The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code.

Robert Cecil Martin

Use, Programming, Comment

You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming.

Marshall Sylver

Believe, Self, Programming

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.

John Maynard Keynes

Sometimes, Found, Programming

John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography”

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

Fred Brooks

Computer, Projects, Programming

"The Mythical Man-Month," Datamation, Dec. 1974

Programming is an explanatory activity.

Roman Harper

Learning, Programming, Activity

I don't like programming. It's tedious.

Rasmus Lerdorf

Programming, Techie, Tedious

"Why the father of PHP doesn’t like programming". DevBeat conference, venturebeat.com. November 13, 2013.

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

Niklaus Wirth

Disaster, Programming, Certain

In the particular is contained the universal.

James Joyce

Learning, Programming, Particular

James Joyce (2016). “Stephen Hero & A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Two Autobiographical Novels): Including Biography of the Author”, p.386, e-artnow

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.

Socrates

Evil, Programming, Greater Good

A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.

Rob Pike

Smart, Programming, Educate

Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.

Rob Pike

Language, Programming, Exciting

There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming.

Rasmus Lerdorf

People, Programming

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.

Niklaus Wirth

Sound, Programming, Aspect