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
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there. — Gordon Bell Copy Share Image
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do — Dennis Ritchie 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
Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one. — Brian Kernighan 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
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
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. — Stan Kelly-Bootle 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
I think once the artistic world of the type designer merged with the scientific world of the computer programmer, you began to… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are… — Harlan Mills Copy Share Image
I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I used to want to be a computer programmer when I was younger. We got an Apple II Plus when I was,… — Chris Parnell Copy Share Image
The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers. — Jessica Livingston 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
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Her team had become NASA’s first computer programmers. The women still worked closely with the engineers, almost all of whom were men,… — Nathalia Holt Copy Share Image
I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
“The people most likely to grasp that wealth can be created are the ones who are good at making things, the craftsmen.… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“When the first professional computer programmers were all women during World War II, and only 12 percent of computer science degrees were… — Nick Yee Copy Share Image
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. — Robert Coveyou Copy Share Image
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