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| Programming Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write it should be hard to understand. | Anonymous | |
| 2 | The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish. -- on the biggest challenge facin | Knuth | Donald |
| 3 | ... the psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large | Knuth | Donald |
| 4 | Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it | Knuth | Donald |
| 5 | Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do | Knuth | Donald |
| 6 | Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer. | Knuth | Donald |
| 7 | Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. | Knuth | Donald |
| 8 | The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language. | Knuth | Donald |
| 9 | ... in fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field. | Knuth | Donald |
| 10 | A list is only as strong as its weakest link. | Knuth | Donald |
| 28 quotations on Programming |



