For the past year @Typemock have tweeted a daily quote. Here are the top 25, which our Twitter followers liked the best!
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- “Algorithmic complexity for structured programmers: All algorithms are O(f(n)), where f is someone else’s responsibility.” – Peter Cooper
- “Fact: 48% of IE7 usage comes from developers checking that their site works in IE7.” – @iamdevloper
- “Programmers don’t burn out on hard work, they burn out on change-with-the-wind directives and not ‘shipping’.” – Mark Berry
- “I’ve known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.” – Kent Beck
- “There are two types of people in this world: those who understand recursion and those who don’t understand that there are two types of people in this world.”
- “Daddy, how is software made?” “Well, when a programmer loves an idea very much they stay up all night and then push to github the next day.” – Sam Kottler
- “Software developers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.”
- “The problem with quick and dirty, is that the dirty remains long after the quick has been forgotten” – Steve C. McConnell
- “Prolific developers don’t always write a lot of code, instead they solve a lot of problems. The two things are not the same.” – J. Chambers
- “A programmer’s wife tells him: go to store. pick up a loaf of bread. If they have eggs, get a dozen. The programmer returns with 12 loaves.”
- “Bad programmers have all the answers. Good testers have all the questions.” – Gil Zilberfeld
- “Our job is to tell you your baby is ugly!” – Software Testers
- “The best TDD can do, is assure that code does what the programmer thinks it should do. That is pretty good BTW.” – James Grenning
- “The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of meeting the schedule has been forgotten.” – Anonymous
- “One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year.” – David Parnas
- “Don’t document bad code — rewrite it.” – Kernighan and Plauger
- “3 Errors walk into a bar. The barman says, “normally I’d Throw you all out, but tonight I’ll make an Exception.” – @iamdevloper
- “Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning.” – Anonymous
- “If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur.”
- “Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.” -Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
- “Knock, knock.” “Who’s there?” very long pause…. “Java.” 😮
- “The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code.” – Uncle Bob Martin
- “My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what’s really going on to be scared.” – P. J. Plauger
- “First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.” – John Johnson
- “Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn’t take it away from you.” – John Carmack
