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More Good Programming Quotes, Part 6

Here are more good programming quotes I have found since my last post.

Programming

“Configuration is coding in a poorly designed programming language without tests, version control, or documentation.”

Gregor Hohpe

“It’s the developers misunderstanding, not the expert knowledge, that gets released in production”

@ziobrando

“The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.”

Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy

“It is not usually until you’ve built and used a version of the program that you understand the issues well enough to get the design right.”

Kernighan and Pike

“Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.”

Alan Perlis

“The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.”

John Ousterhout

“We make, not to have, but to know.”

Alan Kay

“You don’t pay engineers to write code, you pay them to understand subtleties and edges of the problem. The code is incidental.”

@dozba

“Scope doesn’t creep, understanding grows”

@jeffpatton

“Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.”

Burt Rutan

“The art of debugging is figuring out what you really told your program to do rather than what you thought you told it to do.”

Andrew Singer

“The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.”

Grady Booch

Programming Jokes

What’s the difference between C and C++? 1

Unknown

“If it wasn’t for C, we’d be writing programs in BASI, PASAL, and OBOL.”

Unknown

How to solve Windows problems: reboot

How to solve Linux problems: be root

@CarlaNotarobot

Other

“Every job looks easy when you’re not the one doing it.”

Jeff Immelt

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