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.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.

Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.

It’s all talk until the code runs.

Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.

It’s not at all important to get it right (implementation), it’s vitally important to get it written.

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

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

You should name a variable using the same care with which you name a first-born child.