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1. You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity. John Romero

2. Talk is cheap. Show me the code. Linus Torvalds

3. I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. Kent Beck

4. If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. Gerald Weinberg

5. No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software. It's unlikely that you'll be the first. Andy Hunt

6. What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months. Fred Brooks

7. Programming: when the ideas turn into the real things. Maciej Kaczmarek

8. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.Rick Cook

9. Punishments include such things as flashbacks, flooding of unbearable emotions, painful body memories, flooding of memories in which the survivor perpetrated against others, self-harm, and suicide attempts. Alison Miller

10. Computers are good at following instructions,but not at reading your mind. Donald Knuth

11. 80% of Computer Science is detective work. You have to investigate to determine what did and didn't happen and why. Tom Bredemeier

12. Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. Linus Torvalds

13. The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying. John Carmack

14. Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? Brian Kernighan

15. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Tim Peters

16. Every good Programmers are start from Noobgrammers. Naufal Yudhistira

17. Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand Martin Fowler

18. Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. John woods

19. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. Alan J. Perlis

20. Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think! Steve Jobs

21. When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. Richard Pattis

22. Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. Ralph Johnson

23. Enlightenment is the unprogrammed state. Jed McKenna

24. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Edward V Berard

25. Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out. Chris Pine

26. The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. Edsger Dijkstra

27. Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer. Filipe Fortes

28. when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. ...

29. Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. Louis Srygley

30. Computers are good at following instructions,but not at reading your mind. Donald Knuth

31. Go To Statement Considered Harmful. Edsger Dijkstra

32. At the end of the day we're all code monkeys trying to make weird libraries work together by writing shitty hacks. Kristijan Ristovski

33. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. Donald Knuth

34. Kids who are good at traditional school—repeating rote concepts and facts on a test—can fall apart in a situation where that isn’t enough. Programming rewards the experimental, curious mind. Ketil Moland Olsen

35. We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, and on top of ruins. Ellen Ullman

36. If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. Edsger Dijkstra

37. Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined. Kreitzberg and Shneiderman

38. Truth can only be found in one place: the code. Robert C. Martin

39. Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad. Cory House

40. 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

41. Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code. Ellen Ullman

42. People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones. Donald Knuth

43. Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe , or you just want to pursue a career in 21st century , basic computer programming is an essential skills to learn. Stephen Hawking

44. Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn. Steve Jobs

45. Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. Donald Knuth