"[...] computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty." (Donald E Knuth, "The Art of Computer Programming", 1968)
"The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity, of mastering multitude and avoiding its bastard chaos as effectively as possible." (Edsger W Dijkstra, "Notes On Structured Programming", 1970)
"Computer programming is a human activity. " (Gerald Weinberg, 1971)
"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians." (Edsger W Dijkstra, "How do we tell truths that might hurt?", 1975)
"Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable." (Per B Hansen, "The architecture of concurrent programs", 1977)
"Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is
the opportunity to do it again." (Rick Cook, "The Wizardry Compiled", 1989)
"Programming is the ability to talk to the computer in a language it can understand and using grammar and syntax that it can follow to get it to perform useful tasks for you." (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes & Kathie Kingsley-Hughes, "Beginning Programming", 2007)
"Programming is a personal activity and there is no general process that is usually followed."
"Programming is a science dressed up as art, because most of us don’t understand the physics of software and it’s rarely, if ever, taught." (Pieter Hintjens, "ZeroMQ: Messaging for Many Applications", 2012)
"Programming is the process of taking an algorithm and encoding it into a notation that the computer can execute." (Bradley N Miller et al, "Python Programming in Context", 2019)
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