Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of… — David Parnas 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
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
Labor-rich manufacturing doesn't exist anymore. Manufacturing jobs are white-collar, Silicon Valley programmers or highly-skilled technicians. They are not going to employ lots… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Teaming up with the scientists, researchers and computer programmers at Intel to collaborate and co-develop new ways to communicate, create, inform and… — will.i.am 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
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
Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night. — Tom Van Vleck Copy Share Image
I find that creative streak I think often leads in programmers to be good predictors of where culture as a whole is… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
When you think about it, there's no way to input things into a computer. It's all... the holes only go out, right?… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Of course, it's hard to support full-time programmers, so we do get funds from a set of companies that are interested in… — Mitchell Baker Copy Share Image
The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has… — Peter Norvig Copy Share Image
By the mid-1990s the number of people with some experience of using computers was many orders of magnitude greater than in the… — Igor Aleksander Copy Share Image
The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
“Programmers working with high-level languages achieve better productivity and quality than those working with lower-level languages. Languages such as C++, Java, Smalltalk,… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
“Programmers are isolated. They sit in their cubicle; they don't think about the larger picture. To my mind, a programmer is not… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
“Software development requires the cooperation of everyone on the team. Programmers are often called “developers,” but in reality everyone on the team… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them.… — Robert Fano Copy Share Image
In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but… — Gerald Weinberg Copy Share Image
Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to… — Brian Kernighan 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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored. — Bjarne Stroustrup 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
Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one. — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
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