Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard.
--unknown
Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail.
--Max Kanat-Alexander
I'm a programmer. I like programming. And the best way I've found to have a positive impact on code is to write it.
--Robert C. Martin
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
--Unix Fortune
If the steps become to big, they become walls...
--Herb Sutter
The issue of finding the best possible answer or achieving maximum efficiency usually arises in industry only after serious performance or legal troubles.
--Steven S. Skiena
Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.
--Edsger W. Dijkstra