In order to stay motivated to program consistently, a programmer must crave motivation for consistency.
We all look for compelling reasons to learn programming.
No matter if you're a beginner or an expert. Programming requires motivation and inspiration.
I've compiled my 27 favorite programming quotes to inspire, make you laugh, or make you think
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If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live
A program is never less than 90% complete and never more than 95% complete
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it
Copy-and-Paste was programmed by programmers for programmers actually
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but it is fun to program.
99 little bugs in the code. 99 little bugs in the code. Take one down, patch it around. 127 little bugs in the code …
We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit
It’s not a bug — it’s an undocumented feature
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it
Programming isn’t about what you know, it’s about what you can figure out
Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
When I wrote this code, only God and I understood what I did. Now only God knows
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand
We hope these programming quotes inspire you or motivate you in some way. But you will only succeed if you love what you do. Do not underestimate your potential, even yourself.
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