35 Inspiring Programming Quotes With Visuals For Developers and Coders

There are lots of great programming quotes on the internet. We’ve decided to make some into visual quotes to share via our Instagram account @made4dev. We hope to share the best quotes on a daily basis to give you some inspiration and motivation.

In this blog post, we’ve compiled a list of 35 popular quotes images from our Instagram account. If you like the programming quotes and want to be inspired every day, you can follow us on Instagram.

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“You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.” - John Romero

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“Every programmer is an author.” - Sercan Leylek

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“The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.” - Anonymous

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“In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.” - Jon Bentley

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“There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.” - Anonymous

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“One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.” - Ken Thompson

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“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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“A code is like love, it has created with clear intentions at the beginning, but it can get complicated.” - Gerry Geek

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“Code never lies, comments sometimes do.” - Ron Jeffries

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“Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.” - (Eagleson’s Law)

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“One man’s crappy software is another man’s full time job.” - Jessica Gaston

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“Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job.” - (Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering)

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“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” - Bjarne Stroustrup

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“Linux is only free if your time has no value. ” - Jamie Zawinski

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“When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.” - Alan Perlis

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“Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code.” - Dan Salomon

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“Premature optimization is the root of all evil.” - Donald Knuth

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“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

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“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.” - Fred Brooks

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“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.” - Edsger W. Dijkstra

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“Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.” - Edsger W. Dijkstra

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“The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.” - Alan Cooper

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“Software being 'Done' is like lawn being 'Mowed'.” - Jim Benson

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“So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things.” - Ryan Singer

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“Software sucks because users demand it to.” - Nathan Myhrvold

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“First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.” - John Johnson

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“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.” - Linus Torvalds

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“There’s no test like production.” - Anonymous

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“A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.” - Ted Nelson

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“Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.” - Ralph Johnson

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“One man’s constant is another man’s variable.” - Alan J. Perlis

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“One of the best programming skills you can have is knowing when to walk away for awhile.” - Oscar Godson

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“Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.” - Louis Srygley

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“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. ” - Martin Fowler

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“The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.” - Bryan