5 quotes of wisdom that will make you a better programmer

Inspirational quotes don’t work for coders, but words of wisdom do.

Here are some quotes that are important to live by as programmers.

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.

― Brian W. Kernighan

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

― Bill Gates

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

― Linus Torvalds

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

― Harold Abelson

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

― John Woods

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