I worked as a programmer for 16 years.

The last real job I had I was 16-years-old slinging fried chicken in my hometown of Naperville, Ill.

— James Holzhauer

As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.

— Douglas McIlroy

Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of…

— Tim O'Reilly

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.

— Michael Crichton

“I am a non-accredited, overly logical psychologist, therapist, mechanic, diplomat, businessman, and Teacher working in an industry that is still defining itself each and…

— Ka Wai Cheung

You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

— Charles Petzold

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

— Larry Wall

The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.

— Larry Wall

The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

— Fernando J. Corbato

The government does things like insisting that all encryption programs should have a back door. But surely no one is stupid enough to think…

— Kevin Mitnick

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

— Rick Cook

“As a programmer, you are part listener, part advisor, part interpreter, and part dictator.”

— Andrew Hunt

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

— Anonymous

When you have a programmer-founded company it often gets really techy, if you have a producer or a business-person, it all really sets the…

— Tim Schafer