Programming Quotes - Page 2

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.

To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.

When in doubt, use brute force.

If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person who is doing it!

The greatest single programming language ever designed

In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.

The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.

Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

Don't document bad code - rewrite it.

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

If you don’t take responsibility for programming yourself, then someone else will.

Software sucks because users demand it to.

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.

Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

Programming is usually taught by examples.

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick