Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer. — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
“As a programmer, you are part listener, part advisor, part interpreter, and part dictator.” — Andrew Hunt Copy Share Image
What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? — James Alan Gardner Copy Share Image
I was hired as a computer programmer for a national laboratory at age 15. — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
“A programmer who is not even authorized to make a long distance phone call can never be responsible for a loss of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When your dad is a computer programmer, you get all sorts of T-shirts with sayings like this :) hahahahaha — Meeee Copy Share Image
At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's… — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has ever seen a programmer at work... knows that programming itself, if the programmer is given the chance to do… — Dave Hoover Copy Share Image
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
“I’m not a heroic hacker with magic code. I was a brain in a box. But I am a programmer. Or was.… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch… — Rick Cook Copy Share Image
I used to want to be a computer programmer when I was younger. We got an Apple II Plus when I was,… — Chris Parnell Copy Share Image
The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor,… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
“Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
You become a serious programmer by going through a stage where you are fully aware of the degree to which you know… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
“Programmers are isolated. They sit in their cubicle; they don't think about the larger picture. To my mind, a programmer is not… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance.… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“The programmer who refuses to keep exploring will surely stagnate, forget his joy, lose the will to program (and become a manager).” — Marijn Haverbeke Copy Share Image
“The idea was that while one person wrote code, the other programmer would massage his or her shoulders; then they would switch.” — Nick Bilton Copy Share Image
The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
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