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Programming
7 quotes in the Programming category.
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.
— Brooks on the poet as programmer · Fred Brooks · c. 1975
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
— Abelson on code for humans · Harold Abelson · c. 1985
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
— Dijkstra on simplicity and reliability · Edsger W. Dijkstra · c. 1973
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
— Dijkstra on putting bugs in · Edsger W. Dijkstra · c. 1970s
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
— Dijkstra on computers and telescopes · Edsger W. Dijkstra · c. 1970
Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
— Knuth on premature optimization · Donald Knuth · c. 1974
Make it work, make it right, make it fast.
— Beck on work, right, fast · Kent Beck · c. 1990s