Programming Quotations

A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.   -- Doug Linder, systems administrator C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.   -- Bjarne Stroustrup, developer of the C++ programming language Commentary: most debugging problems are fixed easily; identifying the location of the problem is hard.   -- unknown  For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match. -- Bill Bryson, author, from Notes from a Big Country Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, 'How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?' Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer.   -- Steve McConnell, software engineer and author, from Code Complete   It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.   -- Nathaniel S. Borenstein, computer scientist Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.   -- Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corporation  The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take. -- Roy Carlson, University of Wisconsin  There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses.   -- Bjarne Stroustrup Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning.   -- unknown  When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.   -- unknown