Programming Quotes

“Programming is a powerful tool for thinking about thinking.”

“See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.”

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

“Perl is the Swiss army chainsaw of scripting languages.”

“Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.”

“Simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability.”

“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.”

“Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something, you can put beauty into it.”

“Ruby is simple in appearance, but is very complex inside, just like our human body.”

“I wanted a scripting language that was more powerful than Perl, and more object-oriented than Python. That's why I decided to design my own language.”

“The goal of Ruby is to make programmers happy.”

“The real point of OOP is not inheritance and class, it is message passing.”

“A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.”

“It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.”

“In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.”

“I am a programmer. On my last job, I was a programmer. On my next job, I'll be a programmer. I am a programmer.”

“Life is too short to be implementing RFCs.”

“One of my hobbies is to create software that is more secure than what is currently available.”

“I figured it would be really cool to have a programming system that would let you drag and drop parts and wire them together.”

“The psychological profiling of a programmer is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level.”