There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
“Master programmers think of systems as stories to be told rather than programs to be written.” — Robert C. Martin Copy Share Image
The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements. — Brian Kernighan 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
Programmers seem to be changing the world. It would be a relief, for them and for all of us, if they knew… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of… — David Parnas 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
I don't like the feeling, but I've got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer. — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. — Seymour Cray Copy Share Image
...when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
In fact, there are autism clusters, you know, around some of the big tech centers. You take two socially awkward computer programmers… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
When you think about it, there's no way to input things into a computer. It's all... the holes only go out, right?… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The company I invested in is probably a leader in that area. They're a company called Second Spectrum, which happens to be… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think that programmers wares are programs. Programmers have to produce trustworthy solutions and present it in the… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The days of holding the audience captive to watching television at times that programmers tell them they have to watch it are… — Joseph McGinty Nichol Copy Share Image
If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
“Software development requires the cooperation of everyone on the team. Programmers are often called “developers,” but in reality everyone on the team… — Anonymous 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
“Programmers working with high-level languages achieve better productivity and quality than those working with lower-level languages. Languages such as C++, Java, Smalltalk,… — Steve McConnell 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
Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them.… — Robert Fano Copy Share Image
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