Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run,… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“W. Edwards Deming—that arguably, over 90 percent of problems are due to bad systems, not bad people. However, Greenleaf correctly points out… — Robert K. Greenleaf Copy Share Image
One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN. — Tom Van Vleck Copy Share Image
When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty,… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First,… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the… — Damian Conway Copy Share Image
In their work, designers often become expert with the device they are designing. Users are often expert at the task they are… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
In the '80s, society created a caricature of what a hacker or a programmer looked like: a guy wearing a hoodie, drinking… — Reshma Saujani Copy Share Image
If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
It would've been amazing [to work as programmer]. You're good at numbers, you're good with people, you like to wear shorts in… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
It is a real service to humanity and the world to be a good programmer, particularly if you design great products. You… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability. — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it. — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the… — Fernando J. Corbato Copy Share Image
If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and… — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office… — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity. — John Romero Copy Share Image
The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Programmers are very creative people. And animators are problem solvers, just as programmers are. — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense… — Fernando J. Corbato Copy Share Image
It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our… — Keith Braithwaite Copy Share Image
More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including… — William Wulf Copy Share Image
People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works. — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Now that I have the knowledge and I can speak to programmers better and I understand a lot more about what's possible… — Shaun White Copy Share Image
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