This collection holds 498 programming quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Andy Bechtolsheim, Alan Perlis and Brian Marick.

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Ethernet always wins.

Any noun can be verbed.

Development is maintenance.

When in doubt, leave it out.

When in doubt, use brute force.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

Programming is all about numbers.

My laptop has freed me to travel.

Culture is your operating system.

My programming language was solder.

I just want things to work properly.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

Don't document bad code - rewrite it.

Good software, like wine, takes time.

Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.

Programming is an explanatory activity.

I don't like programming. It's tedious.

Code never lies, comments sometimes do.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Successful software always gets changed.

A good threat is worth a thousand tests.

Marketing is the obverse of programming.

Software sucks because users demand it to.

Programming is usually taught by examples.

Perl programming is an *empirical* science!

There's not a lot of gay programming on TV.

All models are wrong; some models are useful.

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

In the particular is contained the universal.

Would you rather Test-First, or Debug-Later ?

Experience doesn't necessarily teach anything.

An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable.

Stupidity is the only natural capital offense.

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

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

Extreme programming is an emotional experience.

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

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

Apple likes me, but they strongly prefer my money.

I started programming before even being in school.

C++ tries to guard against Murphy, not Machiavelli.

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

It's just programming" "No. It's because I love him

The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.

A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

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