You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
“As a programmer, you are part listener, part advisor, part interpreter, and part dictator.” — Andrew Hunt Copy Share Image
“A programmer who is not even authorized to make a long distance phone call can never be responsible for a loss of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“The programmer who refuses to keep exploring will surely stagnate, forget his joy, lose the will to program (and become a manager).” — Marijn Haverbeke Copy Share Image
The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
“Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn’t take it away from you.” — John Carmack Copy Share Image
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's… — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch… — Rick Cook Copy Share Image
Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
Finding a programmer to work with if you don't already know one will be a challenge. Merely judging if a programmer is… — Jessica Livingston 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
When I got started, I was a sideshow. At my first Consumer Electronics Show, in 1977 in Chicago, people came from all… — Brenda Laurel 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
I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance.… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
The truth is I'm not actually an expert programmer! I really don't consider myself to be an expert at anything. For me,… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
The government does things like insisting that all encryption programs should have a back door. But surely no one is stupid enough… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
The complexity of C++ (even more complexity has been added in the new C++), and the resulting impact on productivity, is no… — Bruce Eckel Copy Share Image
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. — Larry Wall 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
I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs. — Fred Brooks 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
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow. — Douglas McIlroy 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
People sometimes ask me what I did when I was hired at HAL. The answer is that I was a programmer. And… — Satoru Iwata Copy Share Image
If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared.… — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
I am a programmer. If I write code, I don't evaluate the results by what I hope the code will be. I… — Brianna Wu Copy Share Image
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
