programming, n.All

Programming is like golf. It's not just about getting the ball in the hole, but also about how many strokes it takes.

Programming is playwriting and computers are lousy actors.

Programming is not about writing code that a computer can understand -- any fool can do that. It is about writing code that humans can understand.

Programming is indistinguishable from a feature.

Programming is an organism that turns coffee into software. -.

Programming is guided by ethics such that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

Programming is capable only of being any set of two from these three options: fast, reliable, cheap.

Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.