Programming Quotes

when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow

Why The Lucky Stiff

Maybe the best programmers aren't those who spectacularly solve crazy problems, but those who don't create them, which is much more silent.

Lena Herrmann

These are thoughts that we can't think.

Bret Victor

Ideas are very important to me.

Bret Victor

Don't start with a class. Start with a protocol.

Dave Abrahams

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Edsger Dijkstra

There is the truth; everything else is a cache.

Anonymous

One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good thing in that it conferred 'experience' on the despised and much-deceived wife. Well, the main 'experience' involved the comprehensive fouling-up of the nation's health-care arrangements, so as to make them considerably worse than they had been before and to create an opening for the worst-of-all-worlds option of the so-called HMO, combining as it did the maximum of capitalist gouging with the maximum of socialistic bureaucracy. This abysmal outcome, forgiven for no reason that I can perceive, was the individual responsibility of the woman who now seems to think it entitles her to the presidency.

Christopher Hitchens

One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good thing in that it conferred 'experience' on the despised and much-deceived wife. Well, the main 'experience' involved the comprehensive fouling-up of the nation's health-care arrangements, so as to make them considerably worse than they had been before and to create an opening for the worst-of-all-worlds option of the so-called HMO, combining as it did the maximum of capitalist gouging with the maximum of socialistic bureaucracy. This abysmal outcome, forgiven for no reason that I can perceive, was the individual responsibility of the woman who now seems to think it entitles her to the presidency.

Christopher Hitchens

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

Linus Torvalds

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

Bjarne Stroustrup

If there is any delay in that feedback loop between thinking of something and seeing it and building on it, then there is this whole world of ideas which will never be.

Bret Victor

[Lisp is the] greatest single programming language ever designed.

Alan Kay

Learning to program teaches you how to think. Computer science is a liberal art.

Steve Jobs

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

Linus Torvalds

An API is like a joke, if you have to explain it it's not that good.

@francesc