- “Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime” – Muhammad Waseem (Computer Scientist & Entrepreneur)
- “The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple” – Grady Booch (American Software Engineer, best known for developing the Unified Modeling Language)
- “My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers” – Steve Wozniak (Co-Founder of Apple)
- “Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable” – Ralph Johnson (Research Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- “If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in” – Edsger Dijkstra (Dutch Computer Scientist, Winner of the 1972 Turing Award)
- “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand” – Martin Fowler (Author & Speaker on Software Development)
- “Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains” – Bill Gates (Founder of Microsoft)
- “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 (Creator of Linux)
- “The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future” – Gabe
Newell (Co-Founder & Managing Director of Valve Corporation) - “Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think” – Steve Jobs (Co-Founder & CEO Apple)