Great Programming Quotes

Computer programming is tremendous fun. Like music, it is a skill that derives from an unknown blend of innate talent and constant practice. Like drawing, it can be shaped to a variety of ends – commercial, artistic, and pure entertainment.

Encouraging quotes that will increase your zeal about programming::

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
Donald Knuth

Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, 'How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?' Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer.
Steve McConnell Code Complete

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.
Anon

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
Bjarne Stroustrup

The road to wisdom?Well its plain and simple to express:Err and err and err again, but less and less and less.
Piet Hein

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case.
Francis Glassborow

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
Fred Brooks

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
Catherine Aird