35 Best Coding & Programming Quotes Will Inspire You

At TECHVIFY, we have hundreds of young and creative programmers. Sometimes, we like to share with each other quotes about programming for developers. A quote from someone at the right time gives us a powerful inspiration.

These quotes are carefully selected by TECHVIFY so that they can be printed and hung in the office or private room. Hope the following motivational and inspirational quotes will inspire you.

Coding Quotes

1. Coding like poetry should be short and concise. ― Santosh Kalwar
2. It’s not a bug; it’s an undocumented feature. ― Anonymous
3. First, solve the problem. Then, write the code. – John Johnson
4. Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad. – Cory House
5. Make it work, make it right, make it fast. – Kent Beck
6. Clean code always looks like it was written by someone who cares. — Robert C. Martin
7. Of course, bad code can be cleaned up. But it’s very expensive.” — Robert C. Martin

Programming Quotes

1. Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code. – Ellen Ullman
2. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. ― Rick Cook
3. Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. ― Martin Fowler
4. Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. – Oscar Wilde
5. Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do. ― Donald Ervin Knuth
6. Confusion is part of programming. ― Felienne Hermans
7. No matter which field of work you want to go in, it is of great importance to learn at least one programming language. ― Ram Ray

Software Development Quotes

1. Software is like sex: it’s better when it’s free. – Linus Torvalds
2. If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likable person.  – Alan Cooper
3. Quality is a product of a conflict between programmers and testers. ― Yegor Bugayenk
4. Everybody should learn to program a computer because it teaches you how to think. – Steve Jobs
5. I taught myself how to program computers when I was a kid, bought my first computer when I was 10, and sold my first commercial program when I was 12. – Elon Musk
6. Software and cathedrals are much the same — first we build them, then we pray.
7. Web development is difficult, only then it is fun to do. You just have to set your standards. If it were to be easy, would anyone do it? ― Olawale Daniel

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Programmers Quotes

1. Programmers seem to be changing the world. It would be a relief, for them and for all of us, if they knew something about it.  – Ellen Ullman
2. Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. – Linus Torvalds
3. Programmer: A machine that turns coffee into code. – Anonymous
4. When I wrote this code, only God and I understood what I did. Now only God knows.  – Anonymous
5. I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits. ― Kent Beck
6. You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It’s logic-based creativity. – John Romero
7. Programming is learned by writing programs. ― Brian Kernighan

Funny Quotes for Developers

1. Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware. – Ken Olsen
2. There is always one more bug to fix.  – Ellen Ullman
3. If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. – Sam Redwine
4. Talk is cheap. Show me the code. ― Linus Torvalds
5. Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday’s code. – Dan Salomon
6. If, at first, you do not succeed, call it version 1.0. ― Khayri R.R. Woulfe
7. Computers are fast; developers keep them slow. – Anonymous

References:

1. https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/coding-quotes
2. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/software-development
3. https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/developers-quotes
4. https://dzone.com/articles/best-programming-jokes-amp-quotes