When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a… — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer. — Ellen Ullman 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
The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements. — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
The company I invested in is probably a leader in that area. They're a company called Second Spectrum, which happens to be… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours. — John Carmack 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
This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges,… — Ray Ozzie Copy Share Image
My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First,… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The days of holding the audience captive to watching television at times that programmers tell them they have to watch it are… — Joseph McGinty Nichol Copy Share Image
I've always felt that people's ears are wider than programmers are ever wiling to give them credit for. It's always been very… — Donnie Simpson 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
Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office… — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
