Programming Quotes
- Conway's law
Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. --Melvin E. Conway
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- Debugging vs programming
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. --Edsger Dijkstra
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- Telescopes
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --Edsger Dijkstra
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- Debugging
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. --Brian Kernighan
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- Optimization
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code. --Bill Harlan
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- Simplicity
Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better. --E.W. Djikstra
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- A common fallacy
A common fallacy is to assume authors of incomprehensible code will be able to express themselves clearly in comments. --Kevlin Henney
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- Measure performance
The lesson is: Even if you know exactly what is going on in your system, measure performance, don't speculate. You'll learn something, and nine times out of ten, it won't be that you were right! --Ron Jeffries
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- Perfection
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. --Antoine de Saint Exupéry
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- A crime movie
Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer. --Filipe Fortes
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- Developaralysis
I'm a victim of Developaralysis: the crippling sense that the software industry is evolving so fast that no one person can possibly keep up. --Jon Evans
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- Design patterns
Design patterns should not be applied indiscriminately. Often they achieve flexibility and variability by introducing additional levels of indirection. A design pattern should only be applied when the flexibility it affords is actually needed. --Erich Gamma
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- Best practices
The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life. --Walter O'Brien
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- Development time
The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time. --Tom Cargill
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- Requirements
Reducing a product's definition to a list of features and functions ignores the real opportunity - orchestrating technological capability to serve human needs and goals. --Alan Cooper
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- One of the best programming skills
One of the best programming skills you can have is knowing when to walk away for awhile. --Oscar Godson
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- Gorilla holding the banana
I think the lack of reusability comes in object-oriented languages, not in functional languages. Because the problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle. --Joe Armstrong
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- Digging in the code
You start digging in the code. The more you dig, the more stuff you turn up. Eventually you dig yourself into a hole you can’t get out of. To avoid digging your own grave, refactoring must be done systematically. Eric Gamma
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- The only real resource on this planet
Do not use humans for jobs computers can do better - this is a waste of human energy and creativity, the only real resource on this planet, and demeans the human spirit. --J. Paul Morrison
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- Quality is the ally of schedule and cost
Quality is the ally of schedule and cost, not their adversary. If we have to sacrifice quality to meet schedule, it's because we are doing the job wrong from the very beginning. --James A. Ward
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- Good guidelines
Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case. --Francis Glassborow
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- Software and cathedrals
Software and cathedrals are much the same. First we build them, then we pray. --Sam Redwine
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- Null reference
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years. --Tony Hoare
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- Attitude to the construction of programs
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. --Donald E. Knuth
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- The things no one can imagine
Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine. --Alan Turing
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- Clever code
Don't be (too) clever. My point was to discourage overly clever code because 'clever code' is hard to write, easy to get wrong, harder to maintain, and often no faster than simpler alternatives because it can be hard to optimize. --Bjarne Stroustrup
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- The value of a prototype
The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself. --Alan Cooper
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- Mathematicians vs computer scientists
Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes. --Richard Hamming
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- The code you delete
The code you write makes you a programmer. The code you delete makes you a good one. The code you don't have to write makes you a great one. --Mario Fusco
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- The last good thing written in C
The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony Number 9. -Erwin Dieterich
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- Get today’s work done today
If you can get today’s work done today, but you do it in such a way that you can’t possibly get tomorrow’s work done tomorrow, then you lose. --Martin Fowler
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- By accident
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. --Nathaniel S. Borenstein
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