Programming Quotes

methodology

Tue Jul 14 13:17:30 -0700 2009

The Programming Quotes Archive has some delicious morsels:

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defence against complexity. – David Gelernter

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

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren’t there. – Gordon Bell

Many of these are decades old, but they sound strikingly similar to the simplicity-is-king, less-is-more arguments that come from Rubyists and other thought leaders today.