最佳編程語錄

A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. — Doug Linder, systems administrator

好的程序員這樣一類人，這類人在橫穿一條單行道前都要先看一下路兩邊。– Doug Linder, 系統管理員

A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use. If the tool is a programming language this influence is, whether we like it or not, an influence on our thinking habits. — Edsger Dijkstra, computer scientist

關於工具，一個最重要的，也是最不易察覺的方面是，工具對使用此工具的人的習慣的潛移默化的影響。若是這個工具是一門程序語言，無論咱們是否喜歡它，它都會影響咱們的思惟慣式。 –Edsger Dijkstra, 著名的計算機科學家。

Being abstract is something profoundly different from being vague… The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. — Edsger Dijkstra

抽象和模糊徹底地不一樣，抽象的目的並非把事情變模糊，而去建立一個新的語義層，在那裏是絕對精確的描述。 — Edsger Dijkstra

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one’s native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. — Edsger Dijkstra

除了數學愛好，對於一個有能力的程序員來講，出色地掌握本身的母語是最寶貴的財富。– Edsger Dijkstra

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. — Bjarne Stroustrup, developer of the C++ programming language

C很容易使你搬起石頭砸本身的腳，而C++把這事變得更難，可是若是必定要這麼作，那麼你的整條腿都會被炸飛 -Bjarne Stroustrup, C++語言的發明者

Commentary: most debugging problems are fixed easily; identifying the location of the problem is hard. — unknown

修復bug很容易，可是定位bug卻很困難 – 匿名

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. — Bill Clinton, former President of the United States

看看當前計算機程序糟糕的事態，軟件開發明顯一直是一門妖術，其仍然不能被稱爲一個工程學。 –比爾.克林頓 美國前總統

For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match. — Bill Bryson, author, from Notes from a Big Country

長期以來，有個事一直困擾着我，那就是越是昂貴的，越是前沿的，就越多是沒用的。而後，困擾個人另外一個事是，計算機是一個死的機器，卻能夠難以想象地去完成那些巧妙的事情，而計算機程序員是那麼聰明人卻在作着難以想象的愚蠢的事情，簡而言之，他們真是天生的一對。– Bill Bryson旅遊文學做家 Big Country中的筆記

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone). — Eric S. Raymond, programmer and advocate of open source software, from The Cathedral and the Bazaar

足夠多的眼睛，就可以讓全部問題浮現(好比：只要給於足夠多的beta測試者和開發人員一塊兒工做，那麼，幾所全部的問題都會很快的出現，而修正也會是顯而易見的）

Good code is its own best documentation. As you’re about to add a comment, ask yourself, ‘How can I improve the code so that this comment isn’t needed?’ Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer. — Steve McConnell, software engineer and author, from Code Complete

好的代碼本身自己就是最好的文檔。當你打算加註釋的時候，問問本身‘我如何才能把個人代碼改善到不需增長註釋？’重構本身的代碼，而後使文檔讓其更清楚。 — Steve McConnell《代碼大全》的做者

Hey! It compiles! Ship it! — unknown

嘿，編譯經過了！出貨！–匿名

Inside every well-written large program is a well-written small program. — Charles Antony Richard Hoare, computer scientist

在每一個編寫精良的大程序裏面都是一個編寫精良的小程序。 –Charles Antony Richard Hoare,計算機科學家

It should be noted 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. — Nathaniel S. Borenstein, computer scientist

須要注意的是，沒有哪一個通過規範培訓的工程師會同意寫一個DestoryBaghdad（摧毀巴克達）的函數。最基本的職業規範會告訴他們應該去寫一個叫DestoryCity的函數，而後把「Baghdad」（巴克達）當成這個函數的參數。——　Nathaniel S. Borenstein,　計算機科學家

Managing programmers is like herding cats. — unknown

管理程序員就如同養一羣貓同樣 –匿名

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. — Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corporation

用代碼行數來衡量編程的進度，就如同用航空器零件的重量來衡量航空飛機的製造進度同樣。——Bill Gates，微軟創始人

More good code has been written in languages denounced as bad than in languages proclaimed wonderful — much more. — Bjarne Stroustrup, from The Design and Evolution of C++

更多的優秀代碼是用被認爲很爛的語言寫成的，而不是用那些被說的好的不得了的語言。——Bjarne Stroustrup, 摘自《The Design and Evolution of C++》

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. — Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, computer scientists and authors, from The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

代碼應該是寫給其餘人來讀的，而能讓機器運行的僅僅是附帶着的。——　Harold Abelson 與 Gerald Jay Sussman, 計算機科學家和做家，摘自《The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs》

Real programmers don’t comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. — unknown

真正程序員歷來不寫代碼的註釋，若是代碼很是難寫，那麼一樣代碼的註釋也會很是難懂 –匿名

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger Dijkstra

簡單是可靠的前提條件 — 迪傑斯特拉

The C programming language — a language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language. — unknown

C語言—— 一門同時具備了彙編語言靈活性和彙編語言強大能力的語言。– 匿名

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time. — Tom Cargill, object-oriented programming expert at Bell Labs

開始的90%的代碼用了90%的開發時間，而剩下的最後的10%的代碼會須要另外90%的開發時間。– Tom Cargill,貝爾實驗室的面向對象編程專家。

The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn’t just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. Sure, any given feature list can be implemented, given enough coding time. But in addition to coming out late, you will usually wind up with a codebase that is so fragile that new ideas that should be dead-simple wind up taking longer and longer to work into the tangled existing web. The trick is to pick the features that don’t fight each other. — John Carmack, computer game programmer

增長一個功能特性的成本並不僅僅是爲這些功能編碼所花費時間的成本，還這個成本應該包括特性擴展的障礙成本。固然，任何的功能清單均可以被實現，只須要有足夠的時間。可是除些以外，你應該對你的代碼庫的脆弱性感到緊張，而那些新的想法應該足夠的簡單，而不是去花費更多更多的時間去糾纏於現有的蜘蛛網。這裏的決竊是挑選那些不會和別人衝突的的功能。

The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases. The terrible temptation to tweak should be resisted unless the payoff is really noticeable. — Jon Bently and M. Douglas McIlroy, both computer scientists at Bell Labs

表現的關鍵是精美和典雅的，並非使用大量的特殊案例。對於任何調整的衝動都應該是被限制的，除非其回報真的是值得注意的。– Jon Bently and M. Douglas McIlroy, 兩者都是貝爾試驗實的計算機科學家

The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert’s Symphony Number 9. — Erwin Dieterich, programmer
最後一件用C作的好做品就是弗朗茨.舒伯特的C大調第9交響曲 — Erwin Dieterich, programmer程序員

The problem with using C++ … is that there’s already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything. — Larry Wall, developer of the Perl language

使用C++最大的問題是..在C++語言裏，存在這一種很強的趨勢，就是若是你不明白C++語言的細節，你就沒法作好任何事情。– Larry Wall, developer of the Perl language

The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take. — Roy Carlson, University of Wisconsin

你越早開始都手編碼，你所花費來編程的時間就越長 — Roy Carlson, University of Wisconsin

The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself. — Alan Cooper, software author, from The Inmates are Running the Asylum

原型的價值在於他給你的教訓，而不是代碼自身 — Alan Cooper, software author, from The Inmates are Running the Asylum

There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses. — Bjarne Stroustrup

世界上只有兩類編程語言：人們都抱怨的語言和歷來沒有人使用的語言 — Bjarne Stroustrup

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. — Charles Antony Richard Hoare

世界上有兩個設計軟件的方法，一種方法是設計的儘可能簡單，以致於明顯的沒有什麼缺陷，另一種方式是使他儘可能的複雜，以致於其缺陷不那麼明顯。

Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they’re much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code. — Eric S. Raymond

醜陋的程序就像一座醜陋的吊橋：他們相比漂亮的良好的吊橋起來，更有可能會坍塌，這是由於人類（尤爲是工程師）感知漂亮的東西是和咱們處理和理解複雜問題的能力相關的。因此，一個程序語言若是很難以優雅地方式編程，那麼其就很難寫出好的代碼。

Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning. — unknown

多作幾周的編程能夠節省你作計劃的時間 —— 匿名 （意思爲，只有實踐過了，你才更容易作計劃，沒有實踐過，作起計劃來將會很頭痛）

When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English. — unknown

當程序語言被設計成容許程序以很簡單的英語來編程的時候，人們將會發現編寫程序的程序員都來自不會說英語的地方。 –匿名