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
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there. — Gordon Bell 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
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are… — Harlan Mills Copy Share Image
GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers. — Raymond Simard Copy Share Image
“Pragmatic Programmers are different. We are driven to find our bugs now, so we don't have to endure the shame of others… — Andrew Hunt Copy Share Image
Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers. — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
“It has all the right ingredients: rich contents, friendly, personal language, subtle humor, the right references, and a plethora of pointers to… — Steven S. Skiena 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
... programming requires more concentration than other activities. It's the reason programmers get upset about 'quick interruptions' - such interruptions are tantamount… — Steve McConnell 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
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
Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it… If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code… — Tony Hoare 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
“Why is it that we reward programmers who work all night to remove the errors they put into their programs, or managers… — Gerald M. Weinberg Copy Share Image
The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
“Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it. Our applications are complex because we are ambitious to use our computers… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio. John’s… — Tim Willits Copy Share Image
When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability.… — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
In the mid-1980s, however, the Estonian TV programmers came up with a clever idea: they asked Moscow for millions of rubles to… — Jaak Kilmi Copy Share Image
UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
After moving to Los Angeles in the early '90s, I started looking into "music for picture" more seriously and in broader scope.… — Paul Haslinger 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 cowboy movies is not our go-to programmer anymore, here's a horror film. — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them. — Steve Yegge Copy Share Image
Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication. — Boris Beizer Copy Share Image
I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together. — Dennis Crowley Copy Share Image
... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
“Pragmatic Programmers won't sit idly by and watch their projects fall apart through neglect.” — Andrew Hunt Copy Share Image
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