"The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer." - Alan Turing #programmer #developer #devlife

"Because we are uncertain about our scheduling estimates, we often lack the courage to defend them stubbornly against management and customer pressure." - Fred Brooks #programmer #developer #devlife

"The best way to know that you have found the last bug is never to find the first bug." - Harlan Mills #programmer #developer #devlife

"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it." - Alan Perlis #programmer #developer #devlife

"I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." - Alan Kay #programmer #developer #devlife

"Flaws in computer programs are usually called bugs. It makes programmers feel good to imagine them as little things that just happen to crawl into our work. In reality, of course, we put them there ourselves." - Marijn Haverbeke #programmer #developer #devlife

"Cleaning code does NOT take time. NOT cleaning code does take time." - Robert C. Martin #programmer #developer #devlife

"First, my wife, my colleagues, and my editors find me to err far more often in optimism than in pessimism. I am, after all, a programmer by background, and optimism is an occupational disease of our craft." - Fred Brooks #programmer #developer #devlife

"A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland." - Ivan Sutherland #programmer #developer #devlife

"The beginning of wisdom for a programmer is to recognize the difference between getting his program to work and getting it right." - Michael A. Jackson #programmer #developer #devlife

"Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity." - David Gelernter #programmer #developer #devlife

"All of our exalted technological progress, civilization for that matter, is comparable to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal." - Albert Einstein #programmer #developer #devlife

"I can build a reliable system with thousands of bugs, if you let me choose my bugs carefully." - David Parnas #programmer #developer #devlife

"Because we are uncertain about our scheduling estimates, we often lack the courage to defend them stubbornly against management and customer pressure." - Fred Brooks #programmer #developer #devlife

"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%." - Donald Knuth #programmer #developer #devlife

"The cost to repair an error goes up dramatically as project moves towards completion and beyond." - Daniel T. Barry #programmer #developer #devlife

"And programming computers was so fascinating. You create your own little universe, and then it does what you tell it to do." - Vint Cerf #programmer #developer #devlife

"The button is working, only, it cannot be seen." - Anonymous #programmer #developer #devlife

"Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch." - Eric S. Raymond #programmer #developer #devlife

"People should be able to speak and breathe programs just like they talk now." - Jaron Lanier #programmer #developer #devlife