Programming Wisdom

Programming wisdom and quotes throughout the years.

The Knuth, the whole Knuth, and nothing but the Knuth, so help me Codd.

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“Sometimes, the elegant implementation is a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.” — John Carmack

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“The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.” — Bjarne Stroustrup

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“Learn not to add too many features right away, and get the core idea built and tested.” — Leah Culver

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“A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things.” — Grace Hopper

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“The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it’s pointless.” — Bram Cohen

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“Maintenance is not a discrete activity, but a routine part of the entire development process.” — The Pragmatic Programmer

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“Great software today is often preferable to perfect software tomorrow.” — The Pragmatic Programmer

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“My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.” — P. J. Plauger

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“Ten doublings is about a thousand, twenty doublings is about a million, and thirty doublings is about a billion.” — Jon Bentley

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“Any time a programmer makes a decision about how to deal with data, how to average it or clean it, you’re imparting more of your own bias on it.” — Hannah Fry

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“A successful test is one that breaks the software.” — Steve McConnell

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“A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.” — Doug Linder

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“Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery.” — Jeff Atwood

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“If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.” — Alan Cooper

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“Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do.” — John Carmack

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“The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.” — Alan Cooper

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“Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.” — Alan Perlis

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“Whenever we haven’t got enough information to make decisions for ourselves, we have a habit of copying the behaviour of those around us.” — Hannah Fry

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“Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.” — Kent Beck

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“Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.” — Louis Srygley