Programming Quotes - Page 5

Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.

About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.

Apple likes me, but they strongly prefer my money.

A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.

My laptop has freed me to travel.

It [AI] would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded.

BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.

Your adrenaline starts to go when the market opens in the morning. It's like sports programming.

In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

Stupidity is the only natural capital offense.

When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.

Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design.

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

I just want things to work properly.

Experience doesn't necessarily teach anything.

Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

Don't worry about how things are. Watch where they are headed.

Successful software always gets changed.

Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.

Beauty is our business.

Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.

If we can't program it, we can't understand it.