Quotes About Software Programming

#1. On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees.

Marc Andreessen

#2. Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design!

Frederick Lenz

#3. As an Agile software development team, we'd been following the hallowed eXtreme Programming tenets, including YAGNI. That is, You Aren't Gonna Need It: a caution to not write unnecessary code -

Anonymous

#4. Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify the design and construction of complex programs.

David Gelernter

#5. My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects.

Richard Stallman

#6. The perfect kind of architecture decision is the one which never has to be made

Robert C. Martin

#7. Successful software always gets changed.

Fred Brooks

#8. There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with ... nobody can ever improve the software.

Bill Gates

#9. The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.

David F. Emery

#10. The conclusion is simple: if a 200-man project has 25 managers who are the most competent and experienced programmers,
fire the 175 troops and put the managers back to programming.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

#11. Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its potential.

Slavoj Zizek

#12. The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute authority to arrange a stage or field of battle and to command such unswervingly dutiful actors or troops.

Joseph Weizenbaum

#13. What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

James Alan Gardner

#14. The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

Gordon Bell

#15. You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

Bertrand Meyer

#16. Programming is a social activity.

Robert C. Martin

#17. Like so many things in software, MVC was invented by Smalltalkers in the seventies. Lispers probably claim they came up with it in the sixties but didn't bother writing it down.

Robert Nystrom

#18. I was not in a good space in my life, emotionally particularly, so I needed to do something to recharge my batteries emotionally and musically. I took a break and I learnt software and programming a little bit, and that's how I designed my live machine, which I've been using for years.

Jamie Lidell

#19. GUIs tend to impose a large overhead on every single piece of software, even the smallest, and this overhead completely changes the programming environment. Small utility programs are no longer worth writing. Their functions, instead, tend to get swallowed up into omnibus software packages.

Neal Stephenson

#20. If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

Edsger Dijkstra

#21. Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it.

Richard P. Gabriel

#22. 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.

Douglas Adams

#23. That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

Larry Niven

#24. Good software, like wine, takes time.

Joel Spolsky

#25. A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

Bill Gates

#26. Redundant comments are just places to collect lies and misinformation.

Robert C. Martin

#27. It should be noted that no ethically -trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

Nathaniel S. Borenstein

#28. Truth can only be found in one place: the code.

Robert C. Martin

#29. The science and engineering of programming just isn't good enough to produce flawless software, and that isn't going to change anytime soon. The

Bruce Schneier

#30. Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

Brian Kernighan

#31. Software sucks because users demand it to.

Nathan Myhrvold

#32. ...I'm not saying simple code takes less time to write. You'd think it would since you end up with less total code, but a good solution isn't an accretion of code, it's a distillation of it.

Robert Nystrom

#33. Indeed, the ratio of time spent reading versus writing is well over 10 to 1. We are constantly reading old code as part of the effort to write new code. ...[Therefore,] making it easy to read makes it easier to write.

Robert C. Martin

#34. Before Ruby on Rails, web programming required a lot of verbiage, steps and time.
Now, web designers and software engineers can develop a website
much faster and more simply, enabling them to be more productive
and effective in their work.

Bruce Perens

#35. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.

Edward Berard

#36. Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.

Bill Gates

#37. With software there are only two possibilites: either the users control the programme or the programme controls the users. If the programme controls the users, and the developer controls the programme, then the programme is an instrument of unjust power.

Richard Stallman

#38. Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

Douglas Crockford