Quotes on 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.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

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

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

A list is only as strong as its weakest link.

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

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.

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.

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

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.

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.