Programming

“Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job.”
(Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering)

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
(Bill Gates)

“Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing.”
(Gerald Weinberg)

“First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.”
(George Carrette)

“First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.”
(John Johnson)

“Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.”
(Kent Beck)

“To iterate is human, to recurse divine.”
(L. Peter Deutsch)

“The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.”
(Anonymous)

“Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.”
(Stan Kelly-Bootle)