“When I write code, I'm thinking about how people are going to use it, and how they're going to break it.”— Bram Cohen
“If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.”— Edsger W. Dijkstra
“Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.”— Donald Knuth
“Programming is like a performance. In a way it's like a theater, and in another way it's like a song.”— Yukihiro Matsumoto
“LISP has been jokingly described as 'the most intelligent way to misuse a computer'. I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.”— John McCarthy
“To be a good programmer is difficult and noble. The temptation to grab the latest fashion is just a distraction.”— Bjarne Stroustrup
“I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on.”— Rasmus Lerdorf
“Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch-type has to do with writing poetry.”— Ted Nelson
“C++ and Java, say, are presumably improvements on C... C is still the lingua franca.”— Dennis Ritchie