The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer. — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless — Bram Cohen 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
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would've been amazing [to work as programmer]. You're good at numbers, you're good with people, you like to wear shorts in… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre… — Kent Beck 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
“Ask a programmer to review ten lines of code, he’ll find ten issues. Ask him to do five hundred lines, and he’ll… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good… — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created… — Joseph Weizenbaum 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
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
My approach to being a self-taught programmer was to find out who was smart and who would be helpful, and these were… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things… — Bill Budge Copy Share Image
Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more. — Naval Ravikant Copy Share Image
The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles,… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“Even in the mid-1990s geeks were fair game. One afternoon a colleague and I were standing on either side of one of… — Emanuel Derman 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 best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly.… — Anonymous 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 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 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 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
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. — Alan Perlis 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 good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. — Doug Linder 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