Monty Python is, for reasons best known to nobody, rather popular with computer programmers. There’s even a programming language called Python, based on their sketches.
Beautiful code is short and concise, so if you were to give that code to another programmer they would say, “oh, that’s well written code.” It’s much like as if you were writing a poem.
Ask a programmer to review ten lines of code, he’ll find ten issues. Ask him to do five hundred lines, and he’ll say it looks good.
K.I.S.S.
What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.
Automated testing is a safety net that protects the program from its programmers.
Quality is a product of a conflict between programmers and testers.
If, at first, you do not succeed, call it version 1.0.
Confusion is part of programming.
Everybody should learn to program a computer because it teaches you how to think.
Software and cathedrals are much the same – first we build them, then we pray.
It’s not a bug; it’s an undocumented feature.
Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad.
Programmers seem to be changing the world. It would be a relief, for them and for all of us, if they knew something about it.
Programmer: A machine that turns coffee into code.
When I wrote this code, only God and I understood what I did. Now only God knows.
Programming is learned by writing programs.
There is always one more bug to fix.
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Computers are fast; developers keep them slow.