Programming and Software Development Quotes

Some of my favorites from some of his favorites:

“Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.”
- Thomas C. Gale

“Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.”
- Unknown

“Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.”
- Unknown

“Debugging is like farting – it’s not so bad when it’s your own code.”
- Unknown

“Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation”
- Unknown

“Good judgement is the result of experience … Experience is the result of bad judgement.”
- Fred Brooks

“Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.”
- Unknown

“Now I’m a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.”
- Martin Fowler

And the last one is actually someone I work with!!! Well, its a guy with the same name as the guy I work with and who is often mistaken for the great Martin Fowler!

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