Funny Programming Quotes

Many of these programming quotes seem born out frustration and anyone who’s involved with the software development industry can relate to at least some of these quotes.

• Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
  Brian Kernighan

• Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
  Martin Golding

• Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime.
  Michael Sinz

• 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

• Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
  Keith Bostic

• The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.
  Seymour Cray

• Good code is its own best documentation.
  Steve McConnell

• Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
  Unknown

• Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
  Alan Kay

• Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
  Edward Berard

• It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
  Hofstadter’s Law