Programming Quotes

“Hollywood and similar “popular culture” sources of disinformation have assigned largely negative images to programmers. For example, we have all seen the solitary, fat, ugly nerd with no social skills who is obsessed with video games and breaking into other people’s computers. He (almost always a male) is as likely to want to destroy the world as he is to want to save it. Obviously, milder versions of such caricatures exist in real life, but in our experience they are no more frequent among software developers than they are among lawyers, police officers, car salesmen, journalists, artists, or politicians.”
― Bjarne Stroustrup, Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++

“Do not proceed with a mess;
messes just grow with time.”
― Bjarne Stroustrup, Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++

“From one point of view, all that a program ever does is to compute; that is, it takes some inputs and produces some output.”
― Bjarne Stroustrup, Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++

“You must run before you can walk!”
― Bjarne Stroustrup, Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++

“Always be suspicious or "of course": "of course" is not a reason.”
― Bjarne Stroustrup, Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++