Programming! One of the most demanding yet very challenging domains of today’s time. Well, if we talk about the current times, millions of developers/programmers/coders are there, but only a few are successful.

Some have opted to become a programmer because of the trend, and some are passionate about coding. So, if you belong to the second category, then there is no problem, but if you are from the first category, you should definitely need some help and motivation.

Simply opting for a course isn’t enough unless you are motivated enough towards it and cannot achieve success. So, here are the top 50 inspiring programming quotes that can inspire you as a developer. Here you go!

List of the 50 Best Programming Quotes

1. Give someone a program; you frustrate them for a day; teach them how to program, and you frustrate them for a lifetime – David Leinweber

 

2. Don’t comment bad code – rewrite it – Brian Kernighan

 

3. No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software. It’s unlikely that you’ll be the first – Andy Hunt

 

4. A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you’ve already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen – Paul Graham

 

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. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships – Linus Torvalds

 

7. Debugging becomes significantly easier if you first admit that you are the problem – William Laeder

 

8. It´s better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive – Steve McConnell

 

9. Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand – Martin Fowler

 

10. One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code – Ken Thompson

 

11. Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it – Rajanand

 

12. Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something, you can put beauty into it – Donald Knuth

 

13. Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer because it teaches you how to think – Steve Jobs

 

14. System programmers are the high priests of a low cult – Robert S. Barton

 

15. A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street – Doug Linder

 

16. I don’t care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine – Vidiu Platon

 

17. Fix the cause, not the symptom – Steve Maguire

 

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

 

19. In programming, the hard part isn’t solving problems but deciding what problems to solve – Paul Graham

 

20. If debudding is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in – Edsger W. Dijkstra

 

21. First, solve the problem. Then write the code – John Johnson

 

22. The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before – Bill Gates

 

23. Make it work, make it right, make it fast – Kent Beck

 

24. Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live – Rick Osborne

 

25. People don’t care about what you say, they care about what you build – Mark Zuckerberg

 

26. As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow – Doug McIlroy

 

27. We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users – Jeff Atwood

 

28. There is a big difference between making a simple product & making a product simple – Des Traynor

 

29. If the code and the comments do not match, possibly both are incorrect – Norm Schryer

 

30. Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable – Ralph Johnson

 

31. If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy – Donald Knuth

 

32. Your mind is programmable – if you’re not programming your mind, else will program it for you – Jeremy Hammond

 

33. Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes – Oscar Wilde

 

34. The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late – Seymour Cray

 

35. Testing can only prove the presence of bugs, not their absence – Edsger W. Dijkstra

 

36. Talk is cheap. Show me the code – Linus Torvalds

 

37. The function of a good software is to make the complex appear to be simple – Grady Booch

 

38. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning – Bill Gates

 

39. Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary – Blaise Pascal

 

40. Active programming consists of the design of new programs rather than the contemplation of old programs – Niklaus Wirth

 

41. Making code does what it’s supposed to do is the easy part. Handling the myriad ways it can go wrong is the real work – Aaron Lozier

 

42. 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

 

43. It is far, far easier to make a correct program fast than to make a fast program correct – Herb Sutter

 

44. Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it – Patrick McKenzie

 

45. If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in – Edsger Dijkstra

 

46. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg – Bjarne Stroustrup

 

47. Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable – Ralph Johnson

 

48. Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute – Harold Abelson

 

49. In programming, if someone tells you you’re overcomplicating it, they’re either 10 steps behind you or 10 steps ahead of you – Andrew Clark

 

50. Truth can only be found in one place: the code – Robert C. Martin

 

Begin Your Development Career in 2023!

We hope that these quotes by famous engineers, programmers, and other personalities are motivating enough for you to take a step ahead in your programming career.

Tighten your belt and kickstart your development journey right away. One day you’ll surely land a leading mobile app development company or web development company.