Daily Developer Quote

A curated developer quote every day. 30 quotes from legends like Linus Torvalds, Steve Jobs, Martin Fowler. Share or save your favorites.

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

— Peter Drucker

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

— Peter Druckermotivation

"Talk is cheap. Show me the code."

— Linus Torvaldscoding

"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code."

— John Johnsoncoding

"Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it's bad."

— Cory Housecoding

"Simplicity is the soul of efficiency."

— Austin Freemandesign

"Make it work, make it right, make it fast."

— Kent Beckcoding

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

— Martin Fowlercoding

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

— Steve Jobsmotivation

"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

— Antoine de Saint-Exuperydesign

"It's not a bug; it's an undocumented feature."

— Anonymoushumor

"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code."

— Ken Thompsoncoding

"The function of good software is to make the complex appear simple."

— Grady Boochdesign

"There are only two hard things in CS: cache invalidation and naming things."

— Phil Karltonhumor

"Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough."

— Mark Zuckerbergstartup

"Stay hungry, stay foolish."

— Steve Jobsmotivation

"The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language."

— Alan Kaycoding

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

— Harold Abelsoncoding

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

— Bill Gatescoding

"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen."

— Edward V. Berardhumor

"If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in."

— Edsger Dijkstrahumor

"The best error message is the one that never shows up."

— Thomas Fuchsdesign

"A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street."

— Doug Linderhumor

"Deleted code is debugged code."

— Jeff Sickelcoding

"Java is to JavaScript what car is to carpet."

— Chris Heilmannhumor

"Before software can be reusable, it first has to be usable."

— Ralph Johnsondesign

"Software is like sex: it's better when it's free."

— Linus Torvaldshumor

"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not."

— Yogi Berrahumor

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

— Chinese Proverbmotivation

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."

— Bill Gatesstartup

"Done is better than perfect."

— Sheryl Sandbergstartup