Quotes on Computer Programming

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.