The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. — Robert Coveyou Copy Share Image
It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
“The genes are master programmers, and they are programming for their lives.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It has all the right ingredients: rich contents, friendly, personal language, subtle humor, the right references, and a plethora of pointers to… — Steven S. Skiena Copy Share Image
An organization that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling… — Karl Lehenbauer Copy Share Image
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. — Tom Van Vleck Copy Share Image
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than… — Dick Brandon Copy Share Image
The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Making AI more sensitive to the full scope of human thought is no simple task. The solutions are likely to require insights… — Fei-Fei Li Copy Share Image
I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say Yeah… — Rasmus Lerdorf Copy Share Image
There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
Facebook is not a physical country, but with 900 million users, its 'population' comes third after China and India. It may not… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
The act of focusing our mightiest intellectual resources on the elusive goal of goto-less programs has helped us get our minds off… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we take the position that it is not only the programmer's responsibility to produce a correct program but also to demonstrate… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Even for the very best programmers ah, sometimes you'll see someone else's program or somebody will come along and they'll show you… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“How many computer programmers does it take to change a light bulb? Are you kidding? That's a hardware problem! " ♦◊♦◊♦◊♦” — Various Copy Share Image
I didn't realize how good I was with technology until I met my parents... my dad told me "You're good; you should… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I love computer programmers. They have a very beautiful definition of complexity as 'the capacity to transmit the maximum information with the… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Jolt is for Windows programmers. It's typical IBM PC: it goes in brown and comes out yellow. Mountain Dew is for Macintosh… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Humans make mistakes. Programmers are bound to make mistakes. Hackers, you can bet your life, are going to be there to exploit… — Michael Demon Calce Copy Share Image
In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops,… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot… — Guy Steele Copy Share Image
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state. — John Ousterhout Copy Share Image
I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs. — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image