"The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague." (Edsger W Dijkstra, "The Humble Programmer", 1972)
"The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer." (Edsger W Dijkstra, "The Humble Programmer", 1972)
"The beginning of wisdom for a programmer is to recognize the difference between getting his program to work and getting it right. A program which does not work is undoubtedly wrong; but a program which does work is not necessarily right. It may still be wrong because it is hard to understand; or because it is hard to maintain as the problem requirements change; or because its structure is different from the structure of the problem; or because we cannot be sure that it does indeed work." (Michael A Jackson, "Principles of Program Design", 1975)
"The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. […] Yet the program construct, unlike the poet's words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separate from the construct itself. […] The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be." (Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays, 1975)
"There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs. (Larry Flon, "On research in structured programming". SIGPLAN Not. 10(10), 1975)
"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute authority to arrange a stage or field of battle and to command such unswervingly dutiful actors or troops." (Joseph Weizenbaum, "Computer Power and Human Reason", 1976)
"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." (Martin Fowler, "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code", 1999)
"Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite." (Eric S Raymond, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", 1999)
"Computer programming is tremendous fun. Like music, it is a skill that derives from an unknown blend of innate talent and constant practice. Like drawing, it can be shaped to a variety of ends – commercial, artistic, and pure entertainment. Programmers have a well-deserved reputation for working long hours, but are rarely credited with being driven by creative fevers. Programmers talk about software development on weekends, vacations, and over meals not because they lack imagination, but because their imagination reveals worlds that others cannot see." (Larry O'Brien & Bruce Eckel, "Thinking in C#", 2003)
"The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer." (Edsger W Dijkstra, "The Humble Programmer", 1972)
"The beginning of wisdom for a programmer is to recognize the difference between getting his program to work and getting it right. A program which does not work is undoubtedly wrong; but a program which does work is not necessarily right. It may still be wrong because it is hard to understand; or because it is hard to maintain as the problem requirements change; or because its structure is different from the structure of the problem; or because we cannot be sure that it does indeed work." (Michael A Jackson, "Principles of Program Design", 1975)
"The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. […] Yet the program construct, unlike the poet's words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separate from the construct itself. […] The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be." (Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays, 1975)
"There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs. (Larry Flon, "On research in structured programming". SIGPLAN Not. 10(10), 1975)
"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute authority to arrange a stage or field of battle and to command such unswervingly dutiful actors or troops." (Joseph Weizenbaum, "Computer Power and Human Reason", 1976)
"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." (Martin Fowler, "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code", 1999)
"Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite." (Eric S Raymond, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", 1999)
"Computer programming is tremendous fun. Like music, it is a skill that derives from an unknown blend of innate talent and constant practice. Like drawing, it can be shaped to a variety of ends – commercial, artistic, and pure entertainment. Programmers have a well-deserved reputation for working long hours, but are rarely credited with being driven by creative fevers. Programmers talk about software development on weekends, vacations, and over meals not because they lack imagination, but because their imagination reveals worlds that others cannot see." (Larry O'Brien & Bruce Eckel, "Thinking in C#", 2003)
"One of the worst symptoms of a dysfunctional team is when each programmer builds a wall around his code and refuses to let other programmers touch it."
"It is not loyalty or internal motivation that drives us programmers forward. We must write our code when the road to our personal success is absolutely clear for us and writing high quality code obviously helps us move forward on this road. To make this happen, the management has to define the rules of the game, also known as "process", and make sure they are strictly enforced, which is much more difficult than 'being agile'." (Yegor Bugayenko, "Code Ahead", 2018)
"Automated testing is a safety net that protects the program from its programmers." (Yegor Bugayenko, "Code Ahead", 2018)
"Quality is a product of a conflict between programmers and testers." (Yegor Bugayenko, "Code Ahead", 2018)
"Quality must be enforced, otherwise it won't happen. We programmers must be required to write tests, otherwise we won't do it." (Yegor Bugayenko, "Code Ahead", 2018)
"We must not blame programmers for their bugs. They belong to them only until the code is merged to the repository. After that, all bugs are ours!" (Yegor Bugayenko, "Code Ahead", 2018)
"We, newbies and young programmers, don't like chaos because it makes us dependent on experts. We have to beg for information and feel bad." (Yegor Bugayenko, "Code Ahead", 2018)
"The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa." (Orson S Card, "How Software Companies Die")
"The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa." (Orson S Card, "How Software Companies Die")
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