Top 25 Programming Quotes of 176 - Page 4

Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting parts.

Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting parts.

Larry Ellison

Data, Programming, Integrated

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

Eric S. Raymond

Sugar, Language, Programming

Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.46, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

Edsger Dijkstra

Bugs, Absence, Programming

"Software Engineering Techniques". Report on a conference sponsored by the NATO Science Committee in Rome, Italy, edited by J.N. Buxton and B. Randell, October 27-31, 1969.

In English every word can be verbed.

Alan Perlis

Language, English Language, Programming Languages

"Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

Rob Pike

Trying, Language, Programming

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

Ray Kurzweil

Programming, Portions

Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.264, Penguin

After you finish the first 90% of a project, you have to finish the other 90%.

Michael Abrash

Firsts, Projects, Programming

You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.

Larry Tesler

Tasks, Burden, Programming

Good software, like wine, takes time.

Joel Spolsky

Wine, Programming, Software

The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Useless, Way, Programming

"Jamie Lee Curtis Comes Clean". Interview with Andrew Eccles, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 3, 2010.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Edsger Dijkstra

Students, Impossible, Programming

Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media