The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost…

I think once the artistic world of the type designer merged with the scientific world of the computer programmer, you began to see this…

— Michael Bierut

If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it.

— Richard E. Pattis

When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was…

— Patricia Cornwell

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

— David Gelernter

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

— Robert Coveyou

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

— Brian Kernighan

There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.

— Anonymous

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.

— Richard E. Pattis

It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous,…

— Andy Hertzfeld

As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.…

— Maurice Wilkes

Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless…

— John Naughton

Computer programmers do it byte by byte

— Alan Kay

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“Her team had become NASA’s first computer programmers. The women still worked closely with the engineers, almost all of whom were men, but it…

— Nathalia Holt

I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that they see…

— Walter Mosley