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
There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Even for the very best programmers ah, sometimes you'll see someone else's program or somebody will come along and they'll show you… — Bill Gates 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
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 cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there. — Gordon Bell Copy Share Image
The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i.e., the conceptual structure… — Fred Brooks 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
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
Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works. — Kent Beck 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
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
Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills,… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity. — John Romero 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
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
As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The cowboy movies is not our go-to programmer anymore, here's a horror film. — Robert Englund 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
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