Jane-Wanjiru_programming_quotes.txt

1. Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. — Harold Abelson

2. Talk is cheap. Show me the code. — Linus Torvalds

3. Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler

4. The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. — Alan Kay

5. It's not a bug – it's an undocumented feature. — Anonymous

6. There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. — Phil Karlton

7. Simplicity is the soul of efficiency. — Austin Freeman

8. First, solve the problem. Then, write the code. — John Johnson

9. The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner. — Jim Highsmith

10. The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before. — Bill Gates 

11. Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out. — Chris Pine 

12. A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. — Doug Linder

13. Deleted code is debugged code. — Jeff Sickel

14. If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

15. Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do. —Donald Knuth

16. Low-level programming is good for the programmer’s soul. — John Carmack

17. Good code is its own best documentation.  — Steve McConnell

18. Sometimes it's better to leave something alone, to pause, and that's very true of programming.  — Joyce Wheeler

19. You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families.  — Jim McCarthy

20. Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.  — Brian Kernighan