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  1. You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity. John Romero

  2. Talk is cheap. Show me the code. Linus Torvalds

  3. I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. Kent Beck

  4. If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. Gerald Weinberg

  5. 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

  6. What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months. Fred Brooks

  7. Programming: when the ideas turn into the real things. Maciej Kaczmarek

  8. 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

  9. Punishments include such things as flashbacks, flooding of unbearable emotions, painful body memories, flooding of memories in which the survivor perpetrated against others, self-harm, and suicide attempts. Alison Miller

  10. Computers are good at following instructions,but not at reading your mind. Donald Knuth

  11. 80% of Computer Science is detective work. You have to investigate to determine what did and didn't happen and why. Tom Bredemeier

  12. Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. Linus Torvalds

  13. The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying. John Carmack

  14. Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? Brian Kernighan

  15. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Tim Peters

  16. Every good Programmers are start from Noobgrammers. Naufal Yudhistira

  17. Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand Martin Fowler

  18. Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. John woods

  19. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. Alan J. Perlis

  20. Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think! Steve Jobs

  21. When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. Richard Pattis

  22. Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. Linus Torvalds

  23. Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. Ralph Johnson

  24. Enlightenment is the unprogrammed state. Jed McKenna