Daily coding quotes to motivate you to write code.
"Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad." — Cory House
"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code." — John Johnson
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." — Harold Abelson
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." — Oscar Wilde
"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." — Coco Chanel
"Java is to JavaScript what car is to Carpet." — Chris Heilmann
"Code never lies, comments sometimes do." — Ron Jeffries
"Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out." — Chris Pine
"The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it." — Dennis Ritchie
"Simplicity is the soul of efficiency." — Austin Freeman
"Talk is cheap. Show me the code." — Linus Torvalds
"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." — Martin Fowler
"Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding." — Burt Rutan
"The best error message is the one that never shows up." — Thomas Fuchs
"A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing." — Alan J. Perlis
"Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code." — Ellen Ullman
"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away." — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Fix the cause, not the symptom." — Steve Maguire
"The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'We've always done it this way.'" — Grace Hopper
"Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind." — Donald Knuth
"Make it work, make it right, make it fast." — Kent Beck
"Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable." — Ralph Johnson
"If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy." — Donald Knuth
"Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains." — Bill Gates
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." — Alan Kay
"The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple." — Grady Booch
"There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works." — Alan J. Perlis
"Code is read more than it is written." — Guido van Rossum
"Programming is not easy like Sunday morning, it’s silent poetry." — Adam Source
"It’s not a bug – it’s an undocumented feature." — Anonymous
"Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships." — Linus Torvalds
"If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it." — Linus Torvalds
"Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined." — Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
"The only skill that doesn’t get rusty is the ability to learn new things." — Unknown
"Programming is the closest thing we have to magic." — Unknown
"The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take." — Roy Carlson
"The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit." — Anonymous
"Readability counts." — Zen of Python
"Programmers are constantly making things more efficient and complicated. People who are really good make it simple." — Unknown
"There’s no place like 127.0.0.1." — Anonymous
"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
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." — Nelson Mandela
"A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street." — Doug Linder
"It's not a bug, it's a feature!" — Anonymous
"Good code is its own best documentation." — Steve McConnell
"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
"Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute." — Donald Knuth
"Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible." — Alan Kay
"The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before." — Bill Gates
"Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming." — Brian Kernighan
"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
"Programming is breaking one big impossible task into several small possible tasks." — Jazzwant
"Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container." — Nathan Myhrvold
"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late." — Seymour Cray
"The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user." — C.A.R. Hoare
"To iterate is human, to recurse divine." — L. Peter Deutsch
"If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" — John Wooden
"The only way to go fast, is to go well." — Robert C. Martin
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code." — Ken Thompson
"It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer." — Albert Einstein
"The best error message is the one that never shows up." — Thomas Fuchs
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing." — Alan J. Perlis
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." — Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman
"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." — Bill Gates
"The best thing about debugging is that sometimes, you really are fixing someone else’s bug." — Dave Agans
"The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take." — Roy Carlson
"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late." — Seymour Cray
"The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner." — Jim Highsmith
"The best programs are the ones written when the programmer is supposed to be working on something else." — Melinda Varian
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." — Hal Abelson
"A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street." — Doug Linder
"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." — Alan Kay
"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." — John Woods
"When I wrote this code, only God and I understood what I did. Now only God knows." — Anonymous
"Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life." — Michael Sinz
"Bad code can always be improved. Bad design stays bad." — Robert C. Martin
"There is no substitute for making things interesting." — Donald E. Knuth
"In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all." — Jon Bentley
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." — Peter Drucker
"The joy of coding is the joy of creation." — Unknown
"Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality." — Niklaus Wirth
"A program that produces incorrect results twice as fast is infinitely slower." — John Osterhout
"Coding is today’s language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead of consumers of computer science." — Maria Klawe
"Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it." — Patrick McKenzie
"To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program." — Alan J. Perlis
"Before software can be reusable, it first has to be usable." — Ralph Johnson
"Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday’s code." — Dan Salomon
"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." — Bill Gates
"Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else." — Eagleson’s Law
"Make it work, make it right, make it fast." — Kent Beck
"The best code is no code at all." — Jeff Atwood
"Truth can only be found in one place: the code." — Robert C. Martin
"The act of writing and reasoning about code sharpens your ability to think." — Douglas Crockford
"A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street." — Doug Linder
"In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion." — Unknown
"Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed." — Richard E. Pattis
"When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code." — Richard Pattis
"Programming isn’t about what you know; it’s about what you can figure out." — Chris Pine
"Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treatment." — Kent Beck
"If you don’t fail at least 90% of the time, you’re not aiming high enough." — Alan Kay
"The best software developers are the ones who understand their limitations." — Unknown
"Software and cathedrals are much the same – first we build them, then we pray." — Unknown
"Remember that there is no code faster than no code." — Taligent’s tenth law of simplicity
"When you see code, think of it as a moving picture – it’s like making a film." — Unknown
"The only thing worse than writing code that doesn’t work is writing code that works really slowly." — Unknown
"A problem well stated is a problem half solved." — Charles Kettering
"Focus on the solution, not the problem." — Unknown
"The biggest mistake you can make is to believe that you are working for someone else." — Earl Nightingale
"Every time you write a line of code, you have the opportunity to make the world a better place." — Unknown
"Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind." — Donald Knuth
"The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit." — Unknown
"The most powerful tool we have as developers is automation." — Scott Hanselman
"Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE." — Joss Whedon
"The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it." — Dennis Ritchie
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." — Tony Hoare
"Coding is not just code, that is a live thing to serve everyone!" — Ming Song
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said." — Peter Drucker
"The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before." — Bill Gates
"Coding is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get." — Unknown
"If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess." — Rod Michael