List of Best Programming Quotes

Programming is a bunch of instructions that dictates to computers how to function. Over the years, millions of programmers have contributed to the development of the coding field. Amongst these programmers, several people have made incredible pronouncements, which have provided insight, laughter, and reflection to programmers and non-programmers alike. In no particular order, here are some of the best programming quotes.

“First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.” ― John Johnson
“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.” ― Linus Torvalds
“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” ― Oscar Wilde
“Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday’s code.” ― Dan Salomon
“Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treatment.” ― Kent Beck
"Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet." ― Chris Heilmann
“Make it work, make it right, make it fast.” ― Kent Beck
“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.” ― Harold Abelson
“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.” ― Rick Cook
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” ― Martin Fowler
“Simplicity is the soul of efficiency.” ― Austin Freeman
“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
“Ruby is rubbish! PHP is phpantastic!” ― Nikita Popov
“Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing.” ― Gerald Weinberg
“Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.” ― Ralph Johnson
“Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad.” ― Cory House
“Punishments include such things as flashbacks, flooding of unbearable emotions, painful body memories, flooding of memories in which the survivor perpetrated against others, self-harm, and suicide attempts.” ― Alison Miller
“Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.” ― Louis Srygley
“I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing.” ― Oktal
“There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.” ― Alan J. Perlis
“Fix the cause, not the symptom.” ― Steve Maguire
“One man’s crappy software is another man’s full-time job.” ― Jessica Gaston
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” ― Bill Gates
“If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.” ― Gerald Weinberg
“A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.” ― Alan J. Perlis

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