Programming Quotes

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Followed this from digg.com/programming during my lunch break.

Some of these quotes are pretty good...

http://www.eskimo.com/~hottub/software/pro...ing_quotes.html

Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, 'How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?' Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer.

Steve McConnell Code Complete

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

Brian W. Kernighan

Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.

Eric S. Raymond

(When coding with wires, it's even easier to tell the ugly programs from the beautiful ones...)

[mseb]

Thank you for pointing this, it's a real goldmine. I knew the three you cited, but didn't know this one :

If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge from Henry Spencer.

My favorite, one, definitely.

[Khalid]

Here's an interesting blog -- programming gurus of our time (Linus Torvalds, Bjarne Stroustrup, James Gosling, et. al.) were asked a few questions, and they responded:

http://sztywny.titaniumhosting.com/2006/07...ammers-answers/

Some questions that were asked:

- How did you learn programming?

- What do you think is the most important skill every programmer should posses?

- Do you think mathematics and/or physics are an important skill for a programmer? Why?