Programming Quotes, Sayings for programmers

Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
- Michael Sinz

Java: write once, debug everywhere.
- Proverb

Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.
- Ralph Johnson

The software isn’t finished until the last user is dead.
- Anonymous

One man’s crappy software is another man’s full time job.
- Jessica Gaston

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
- Brian Kernigan

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
- Anonymous

The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
- Grady Booch

Software and cathedrals are much the same – first we build them, then we pray.
- Anonymous Preacher

C++ would make a decent teaching language if we could teach the ++ part without the C part.
— Michael B. Feldman

I would rather use Java than Perl. And I’d rather be eaten by a crocodile than use Java.
— Proverb

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
- Alan J. Perlis

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
- Edsger Dijkstra

Programming is 10% science, 20% ingenuity, and 70% getting the ingenuity to work with the science.
- Anonymous

There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.
— Jeremy S. Anderson

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
- Larry Wall

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
- Martin Golding

Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSs is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
— Alanna