Funny Quotes About Programming

Programming is the key to software. Without it, computers might as well be useless. The following are some great funny quotes about programming.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.
C.A.R. Hoare

The great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.
Andrew Tannenbaum

The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony Number 9.
Erwin Dieterich

Everyone needs computer programming. It will be the way we speak to the servants.
John McCarthy

There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.
Bertrand Meyer

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

C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.
Jamie Zawinski

To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch

Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
Fred Brooks

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill