Over the years, many programmers have shared their wisdom and insights through inspiring quotes. In this post, we will share 10 popular programming quotes that will motivate you to improve your coding skills and approach programming with a fresh perspective.

1. “Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.” – Harold Abelson
2. “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” – Martin Fowler
3. “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay
4. “A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete.” – Terry Baker
5. “Simplicity is the soul of efficiency.” – Austin Freeman
6. “Debugging is like being a detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer.” – Filipe Fortes
7. “The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.” – Alan Kay
8. “Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
9. “Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.” – John F. Woods
10. “The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.” – Richard Moore