Quotes for Developers

Quotes for Developers

Motivation is crucial to anything we do in life, sometimes it is helpful to take look at inspirational thought and wisdom by others who share our skill sets. So below I have contrived a list of quotes for your enjoyment.

Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

-Alan Turing

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

-Bill Gates

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

-Bjarne Stroustrup

Programming is an explanatory activity.

-Roman Harper

Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

-Scott Adams

They know enough who know how to learn.

-Henry Adams

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.

-John Carmack