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Best Engineer quotes
- “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay
- “First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.” – John Johnson
- “Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad.” – Cory House
- “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.” – Anonymous
- “Software is a great combination of artistry and engineering.” – Bill Gates
- “Programming isn’t about what you know; it’s about what you can figure out.” – Chris Pine
- “Software developers are the poets of our time.” – Unknown
- “The best code is no code at all.” – Jeff Atwood
- “Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.” – Burt Rutan
- “The programmer’s dream: a machine that does the work.” – Philip Greenspun
- “Talk is cheap. Show me the code.” – Linus Torvalds
- “Good code is its own best documentation.” – Steve McConnell
- “Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “The art of debugging is figuring out what you really told your program to do.” – Andrew Singer
- “Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.” – Harold Abelson
- “The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.” – Randall E. Stross
- “The difference between a novice and an expert is that the expert has made all the mistakes.” – Unknown
- “You can’t trust code that you did not totally create yourself.” – Ken Thompson
- “Simplicity is the soul of efficiency.” – Austin Freeman
- “Code never lies, comments sometimes do.” – Ron Jeffries
- “Code refactoring is like doing the dishes: you never want to do it, but it’s always nice when it’s done.” – Unknown
- “If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It’s much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.” – Grace Hopper
- “Programming is not about typing, it’s about thinking.” – Rich Hickey
- “In software, the glass is neither half empty nor half full; it’s twice as large as it needs to be.” – Unknown
- “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.” – Unknown
- “The best software is the one that fits your needs.” – Unknown
- “Programming is the art of doing one thing at a time.” – Michael Feathers
- “The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take.” – Roy Carlson
- “A program that produces incorrect results twice as fast is infinitely slower.” – John Osterhout
- “The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user.” – C.A.R. Hoare
- “The code may be poetry, but the comments are prose.” – Unknown
- “Programming is like sex: one mistake, and you have to support it for the rest of your life.” – Michael Sinz
- “The best error message is the one that never shows up.” – Thomas Fuchs
- “Software development is not assembly line work. It is an art form.” – Jamie Zawinski
- “Code is read much more often than it is written.” – Guido van Rossum
- “Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.” – John F. Woods
- “If you think math is hard, try web design.” – Trish Parr
- “The best code is like a joke. It’s the one you don’t have to explain.” – Unknown
- “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” – Martin Fowler
- “The most valuable skill in a software developer’s toolbox is the ability to learn.” – Unknown
Quotation for software development
- “Code is the language in which we ultimately express the requirements.” – Robert C. Martin
- “Programming is thinking, not typing.” – Casey Patton
- “The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.” – Grady Booch
- “Software, like entropy, tends to increase over time.” – Nathan Myhrvold
- “It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
- “Software development, like professional sports, is a young person’s game.” – Bill Gates
- “Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “Software developers are the poets of the 21st century.” – Unknown
- “Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.” – Ellen Ullman
- “Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it.” – Patrick McKenzie
- “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
- “The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware engineer with a software patch, and a user with an idea.” – Rick Cook
- “Software is like sex: it’s better when it’s free.” – Linus Torvalds
- “In software development, the best is the enemy of the good.” – Voltaire
- “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 only way to go fast is to go well.” – Robert C. Martin
- “Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” – Aristotle
- “The best software development tool is between your ears.” – Ken Beck
- “Code never lies, comments sometimes do.” – Ron Jeffries
- “There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.” – Phil Karlton
- “Software is a great combination of artistry and engineering.” – Bill Gates
- “It’s not about ‘get it done’ but ‘get it done right.'” – Larry Wall
- “The key to success is to ship software.” – Michael Abrash
- “The best code is like a joke. It’s the one you don’t have to explain.” – Unknown
- “You can’t control what you can’t measure.” – Tom DeMarco
- “If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.” – Edsger W. Dijkstra
- “Think twice, code once.” – Winkerr
- “Software development is not just about writing code. It’s about managing complexity.” – Tom Cargill
- “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
- “Programming is not about typing; it’s about thinking.” – Rich Hickey
Funny Software engineer quotes
- “Why do programmers always mix up Christmas and Halloween? Because Oct 31 == Dec 25.” – Unknown
- “The best code is no code at all. But since no code is impossible, at least make it less code.” – Unknown
- “I don’t always test my code, but when I do, I do it in production.” – Unknown
- “Programming is like sex: One mistake, and you have to support it for the rest of your life.” – Michael Sinz
- “Software developers don’t sleep. They just enter the state of syntax error.” – Unknown
- “I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits.” – Kent Beck
- “The code may be poetry, but the comments are prose.” – Unknown
- “There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.” – Unknown
- “Why do programmers prefer iOS development over Android development? Because on iOS, you don’t have to deal with Java’s garbage collection.” – Unknown
- “I don’t write bugs; I write random features.” – Unknown
- “Software developers are the only people who can be trusted to count from zero.” – Unknown
- “Programming is the art of doing one thing at a time, very slowly.” – Unknown
- “I code because I don’t know how to adult.” – Unknown
- “The only thing better than a good code comment is no code at all.” – Unknown
- “Why don’t programmers like nature? It has too many bugs.” – Unknown
- “Documentation is like sex: When it’s good, it’s very, very good, and when it’s bad, it’s better than nothing.” – Dick Brandon
- “Programming is like magic, but sometimes you need to deal with dark arts.” – Unknown
- “My code doesn’t always work, but when it does, I’m probably not the one who wrote it.” – Unknown
- “I have a joke about UDP, but you might not get it.” – Unknown
- “Software development: Turning coffee into code since the 1950s.” – Unknown
- “I’m not procrastinating; I’m just doing side quests.” – Unknown
- “Why do programmers always mix up work and pleasure? Because they find it hard to switch between bit and byte.” – Unknown
- “Software engineers are professional Googlers.” – Unknown
- “When in doubt, use brute force. If it’s still not working, you’re not using enough.” – Unknown
- “I’d like to help you out. Which way did you come in?” – Unknown
- “I’m not a nerd; I’m just smarter than you.” – Unknown
- “I don’t need anger management; I just need people to stop annoying me when I’m coding.” – Unknown
- “Sudo make me a sandwich.” – Unknown
- “I’ve got 99 problems, and they’re all merge conflicts.” – Unknown
- “If at first you don’t succeed, call it version 1.0.” – Unknown
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