Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
--Edward V. Berard
It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good.
--Hary Chapin
Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.
--Alan Kay
Think twice, code once.
--Waseem Latif
Along every step of our journey through life, our mind is being programmed. If we are not programming it ourselves, someone else is doing it to us.
--Joseph Rain
If the steps become to big, they become walls...
--Herb Sutter
With software there are only two possibilites: either the users control the programme or the programme controls the users. If the programme controls the users, and the developer controls the programme, then the programme is an instrument of unjust power.
--Richard Stallman
Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.
--Louis Srygley
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
--John Ciardi
The best way to predict the future is to invent it
--Alan Kay
What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?
--James Alan Gardner
First solve the problem. Then, write the code.
--Waseem Latif
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
--Alan Kay
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
--Larry Niven
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist
--Pablo Picasso
Happiness should be a function without any parameters.
--Pranshu Midha
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
--Alan Perlis
Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.
--Chris Pine
Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard.
--unknown
The personal computer isn't "personal" because it's small and portable and yours to own. It's "personal" because you pour yourself into it - your thoughts, your programming.
--Audrey Watters
Our consciousness is programmed. We see things a certain way from a young age - we're programmed to keep doing them that way. Then you have to spend adulthood learning how to overcome it, to read out the programs. Try to create. I want to tell people to create. Just start by creating your day. Then create your life.
--Prince
You are not reading this book because a teacher assigned it to you, you are reading it because you have a desire to learn, and wanting to learn is the biggest advantage you can have.
--Cory Althoff
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
--Martin Fowler