If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
I actually started in the opposite place. I come from a technical background - I'm a mathematician and a programmer by trade… — Michael Loceff Copy Share Image
My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even… — Robert W. Floyd Copy Share Image
From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity,… — Randall E. Stross Copy Share Image
'On demand' is more than just a series of clicks on your still-too-complicated remote control. In fact, it is now the best… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
[Sundance] still feels significant. I don't think you can help but come here and not feel that sense of history and its… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has… — Alan Cooper Copy Share Image
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the… — Verity Stob Copy Share Image
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or… — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills,… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them -… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
In a weird way, riffing on genres is kind of a reaction to formula. When you watch so much of the programmers… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
“It was a mystery with one intriguing clue: programmers from the same companies performed at more or less the same level, even… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already,… — Jaan Tallinn Copy Share Image
“Saying that programmers should just accomplish twice as much doesn't work. They can gain skills and effectiveness, but they cannot get more… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety,… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges,… — Ray Ozzie Copy Share Image
A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
When you have a programmer-founded company it often gets really techy, if you have a producer or a business-person, it all really… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
![“[Sundance] still feels significant. I don't think you can help but come here and not feel that sense of history and its significance in influencing film. And I think it still does. Some of that is based on history, but it's also based on really incredible programmers who are showcasing such an…” quote by Elijah Wood](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/eb8/elijah-wood-4751_cinema_sundance-still-feels-significant-i-don-t_2568957.jpg)
