Programmers Quotes · Page 3

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

— Dennis Ritchie

Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

— Brian Kernighan

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

— Gordon Bell

“Novice programmers don’t yet have the skills to write simple code.”

— Sandi Metz

Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.

— David Platt

The cowboy movies is not our go-to programmer anymore, here's a horror film.

— Robert Englund

Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.

— Jessica Livingston

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time

— Eric S. Raymond

UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.

— Dennis Ritchie

“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch…

— Rick Cook

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

— Martin Fowler

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

— Stan Kelly-Bootle

Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.

— Tom Van Vleck

“Pragmatic Programmers are different. We are driven to find our bugs now, so we don't have to endure the shame of others…

— Andrew Hunt

GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.

— Raymond Simard

Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't…

— Orson Scott Card

Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a…

— Marco Tempest

By the mid-1990s the number of people with some experience of using computers was many orders of magnitude greater than in the…

— Igor Aleksander

One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has…

— Peter Norvig

Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he…

— Erik Naggum

I've always felt that people's ears are wider than programmers are ever wiling to give them credit for. It's always been very…

— Donnie Simpson

The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the…

— Paul Vixie

I used to want to be a computer programmer when I was younger. We got an Apple II Plus when I was,…

— Chris Parnell

UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives…

— Linus Torvalds

When we look at these historical women and what they've gone through, it's shocking to recognize some of our own experiences in…

— Anita Sarkeesian

After moving to Los Angeles in the early '90s, I started looking into "music for picture" more seriously and in broader scope.…

— Paul Haslinger

The complexity of C++ (even more complexity has been added in the new C++), and the resulting impact on productivity, is no…

— Bruce Eckel

With the exceptional talent that is Guy Sigsworth as producer and collaborator, we have recorded a collection of original songs that sees…

— Alison Moyet

When you choose a language, youre also choosing a community. The programmers youll be able to hire to work on a Java…

— Philip Greenspun

The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles,…

— Steve Jobs

The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a…

— Fred Brooks

Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

— Douglas Crockford

Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them.

— Steve Yegge

I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.

— Dennis Crowley

I've always sort of been at odds with radio programmers.

— Leon Russell

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

— Eric S. Raymond

Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code.

— Steve Lohr

Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication.

— Boris Beizer

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.

— Bjarne Stroustrup