Programming Quotes


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Premature optimisation is the root of all evil in programming. (Donald Knuth)

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. (Donald Knuth)

No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved. (Mark Gibbs)

In two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. (Charles Babbage )

There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs. (Larry Flon)

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

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