Programming Quotes: Get Rid of Coding Boredom
Workers in any profession get bored. When they do, they just take a break, chat up with their coworkers and drink a cup of coffee.
Programmers don’t have this leisure always. It is more so especially since pandemic has locked programmers inside their uncomfortable bedrooms.
There are two ways/steps to get rid of boredom or frustration:
- Reflection (Admitting and sharing the causes of it)
- Humor
Quotes about programming address both. So today, I came up with a few programming quotes that could lighten up your day.
On Programming Habits & Opinions:
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”
― Martin Fowler
“There are many terrible mistakes to make in program design, and you should go ahead and make them so that you understand them. A sense of what a good program looks like is developed in practice, not learned from a list of rules.”
― Marijn Haverbeke
“Tests shouldn’t verify units of code. Instead, they should verify units of behavior: something that is meaningful for the problem domain and ideally something that a business person can recognize as useful.”
― Vladimir Khorikov, Unit Testing: Principles, Practices, and Patterns
“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.”
― Edward V. Berard
“I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits.”
― Kent Beck
“Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.”
― Louis Srygley
“Could we have developer acceptance criteria?”
― ahkeno
“The object-oriented version of spaghetti code is, of course, ‘lasagna code’. Too many layers.”
— Roberto Waltman
“Functions that create values are easier to combine in new ways than functions that directly perform side…
