Best Programming Quotes

Best Programming Quotes

I love to read programming quotes and jokes. Programming quotes make me laugh and sometimes it inspires to me. Some best programming quotes are added below.

It works on my machine.

It’s not bug, it’s a undocumented feature.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

Martin Fowler

Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.

Ralph Johnson

Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.

Deleted code is debugged code.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code

Linus Torvalds

First solve the problem. Then write the code.

John Johnson

There’s no ctrl+z in life.

COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods.

Algorithm Word used by programmers when they don’t want to explain what they did.

Programmer is a machine that turns coffee into code.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works

Java is to JavaScript what car is to carpet.

In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works

Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.

I’m not a great programmer. I’m just a good programmer with great habits.

Kent Beck

How you look at it is pretty much how you’ll see it.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

Alan J. Perlis

There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.

Phil Karlton

It is harder to read code than to write it.

Joel Spolsky

All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection.

David Wheeler

Don’t write better error messages, write code that doesn’t need them.

Jason C. McDonald

Programming isn’t about what you know; it’s about what you can figure out.

Chris Pine

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

Dennis Ritchie

Sometimes it’s better to leave something alone, to pause, and that’s very true of programming.

Joyce Wheeler

Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.

Sam Ewing

Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.

Steve Wozniak

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

Ted Nelson

Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job.

Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free.

Linus Torvalds

There are two ways to write error-free programs only the third one works.

Alan J. Perlis

I don’t care if it works on your machine. We are not shipping your machine.

Vidiu Platon

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