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 idea was that while one person wrote code, the other programmer would massage his or her shoulders; then they would switch.” — Nick Bilton 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
You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“As a programmer, you are part listener, part advisor, part interpreter, and part dictator.” — Andrew Hunt Copy Share Image
What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? — James Alan Gardner 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
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
“I’m not a heroic hacker with magic code. I was a brain in a box. But I am a programmer. Or was.… — John Scalzi 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
If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because… — Donald Knuth 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
Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user… — Larry Tesler Copy Share Image
You become a serious programmer by going through a stage where you are fully aware of the degree to which you know… — Erik Naggum 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 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
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 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 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 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
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
Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer. — Marvin Minsky 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
I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs. — Fred Brooks 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
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
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
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
“Anyone who has ever seen a programmer at work... knows that programming itself, if the programmer is given the chance to do… — Dave Hoover 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
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
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
Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more. — Naval Ravikant 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
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
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