Цитаты о программировании

No matter who. No matter what. No matter when. Short term.Long term. Any term. Writing good code is ALWAYS faster than writing bad code.

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result Is so important they get paid to do it.

When done well, software is invisible.

More programmers should judge their work by this criterion. Simple programs are usally more reliable, secure, robust and efficient than their complex cousins, and easier to build and maintain.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they’re designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

Just because people tell you it can’t be done, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it can’t be done. It just means that they can’t do it.

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.