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Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.
Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.
Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.
Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.
A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.
That's what my job is: to create quality programming.
I started taking programming lessons at the age of 10.
My heart has always been in programming and marketing.
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.
The greatest single programming language ever designed
Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected.
Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.
BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.
Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.
I skip through the programming to watch the commercials.
I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.
Proprietary programming like news can be a great weapon.
Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.
There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming.
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
I didn't do programming language stuff in college at all.
With diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly.
Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.
Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.
There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.
The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity.
Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.
After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.
Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick
Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!
Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.
Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.
To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.
Don't worry about how things are. Watch where they are headed.
You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.
If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.
Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.
Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.