These Programmer quotes capture the essence of programming, its challenges, and the humor often associated with it. These quotes reflect various aspects of programming, including the importance of clear code, problem-solving, and the mindset of programmers.
Best Programmer quotes
- “Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad.” – Cory House
- “Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.” – Harold Abelson
- “There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.” – Phil Karlton
- “It’s not a bug; it’s a feature.” – Anonymous
- “The best error message is the one that never shows up.” – Thomas F. O’Connell
- “The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.” – Tom Cargill
- “Java is to JavaScript what car is to carpet.” – Chris Heilmann
- “Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.” – Keith Bostic
- “Simplicity is the soul of efficiency.” – Austin Freeman
- “Code without tests is broken by design.” – Jacob Kaplan-Moss
- “Software is a great combination of artistry and engineering.” – Bill Gates
- “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” – Bill Gates
- “It’s not a bug. It’s an undocumented feature!” – Anonymous
- “If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.” – Edsger Dijkstra
- “To iterate is human, to recurse divine.” – L. Peter Deutsch
- “The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.” – Bill Gates
- “Programming is like sex: One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.” – Michael Sinz
- “Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.” – Eagleson’s Law
- “A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.” – Alan Perlis
- “Good code is its own best documentation.” – Steve McConnell
- “The best way to predict the future is to implement it.” – David Heinemeier Hansson
- “In programming, the hard part isn’t solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve.” – Paul Graham
- “Talk is cheap. Show me the code.” – Linus Torvalds
- “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
- “Real programmers don’t document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.” – Anonymous
- “Programming is the art of telling another human what one wants the computer to do.” – Donald Knuth
- “The difference between a novice and an expert is that the expert has a lot more experience with the same mistakes the novice is still making.” – David Levy
- “Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.” – Louis Srygley
- “If at first, you don’t succeed, call it version 1.0.” – Anonymous
- “Code is read more often than it is written.” – Guido van Rossum
- “It works on my machine.” – Anonymous
- “The computer does exactly what I tell it to do, not what I want it to do.” – Anonymous
- “There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’—illegal drugs and software.” – Edward Tufte
- “I don’t always test my code, but when I do, I do it in production.” – Anonymous
- “Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however, they should not be combined.” – Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
- “If it wasn’t tested, it doesn’t work.” – Anonymous
- “First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.” – John Johnson
- “The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.” – Anonymous
- “Coding is not ‘fun,’ it’s technically and ethically complex.” – Anil Dash
- “Keep calm and code on.” – Anonymous
Quotes for Programming
- “Code is poetry.” – Unknown
- “Programming is the closest thing we have to magic.” – Drew Houston
- “Coding is not just a job; it’s a lifestyle.” – Unknown
- “Programming is thinking, not typing.” – Casey Patton
- “The code you write today is the legacy you leave tomorrow.” – Unknown
- “In software development, the best code is no code at all.” – Jeff Atwood
- “The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly.” – Donald Knuth
- “Programming isn’t about what you know; it’s about what you can figure out.” – Chris Pine
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
- “Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer.” – Filipe Fortes
- “The best code is no code.” – Jeff Atwood
- “To iterate is human; to recurse, divine.” – L. Peter Deutsch
- “Good code is its own best documentation.” – Steve McConnell
- “Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.” – Harold Abelson
- “Code tells you how; comments tell you why.” – Jeff Atwood
- “The computer does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.” – Anonymous
- “Simplicity is the soul of efficiency.” – Austin Freeman
- “It’s hard enough to find an error in your code when you’re looking for it; it’s even harder when you’ve assumed your code is error-free.” – Steve McConnell
- “The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.” – Aristotle
- “If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.” – Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder
- “Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.” – John Woods
- “Software is a great combination of artistry and engineering.” – Bill Gates
- “Programming is not about typing; it’s about thinking.” – Rich Hickey
- “The best way to predict the future is to implement it.” – David Heinemeier Hansson
- “There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.” – Phil Karlton
- “If at first you don’t succeed, call it version 1.0.” – Unknown
- “I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits.” – Kent Beck
- “Don’t comment bad code—rewrite it.” – Brian W. Kernighan
- “Programmers are not machines that turn coffee into code.” – Unknown
Funny Programmer quotes
- “Why do programmers always mix up Christmas and Halloween? Because Oct 31 == Dec 25.” – Unknown
- “I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.” – Unknown
- “Programmers don’t die; they just go offline.” – Unknown
- “There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.” – Unknown
- “Programming is like sex: One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.” – Michael Sinz
- “Why don’t programmers like nature? It has too many bugs.” – Unknown
- “The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.” – J. Osterhout
- “Programming is 10% science, 20% ingenuity, and 70% getting the ingenuity to work with the science.” – Unknown
- “The only thing that unites all programmers is the inevitable frustration when your code doesn’t work.” – Unknown
- “I’m not anti-social; I’m just not user-friendly.” – Unknown
- “I don’t need a girlfriend; I have a compiler.” – Unknown
- “Real programmers count from 0.” – Unknown
- “If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.” – Unknown
- “Why do Java developers wear glasses? Because they don’t see sharp.” – Unknown
- “Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer.” – Filipe Fortes
- “There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.” – Alan J. Perlis
- “I’m not a programmer; I just type random stuff until it works.” – Unknown
- “I’m not sure if you heard, but I’m kind of a big deal in the world of programming.” – Unknown
- “I like my code like I like my coffee: strong and with no bugs.” – Unknown
- “Programmers don’t die; they just lose their cache.” – Unknown
- “I have a joke about UDP, but you might not get it.” – Unknown
- “Why did the programmer go broke? Because he used up all his cache.” – Unknown
- “You know you’re a programmer when you spend more time reading and writing documentation than actual coding.” – Unknown
- “I’m not lazy; I’m just in energy-saving mode.” – Unknown
- “Programming is the art of creating problems for which you have the ultimate solution.” – Unknown
- “Why did the developer go broke? Because he used up all his cache.” – Unknown
- “I’m not a fan of procrastination, but I keep postponing it.” – Unknown
- “There’s no place like 127.0.0.1.” – Unknown
- “Why don’t programmers like to go outside? The sunlight causes too many reflections.” – Unknown
- “I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.” – Unknown
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