To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders,… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce… — John Fowler Copy Share Image
I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“Happiness has a cascading effect. Happy programmers do the right thing. They write simple, readable code. They take clean, expressive, readable, elegant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pragmatic Programmers don't shirk from responsibility. Instead, we rejoice in accepting challenges and in making our” — Andrew Hunt Copy Share Image
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is, therefore, possible to extend a partially specified interpretation to a complete interpretation, without loss of verifiability... This fact offers the… — Robert W. Floyd Copy Share Image
Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Our society expects that everyone should learn to write, even though very few become professional writers. Similarly, I think that everyone should… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“I have long enjoyed asking candidate programmers, "Where is next November?" If the question is too cryptic, then, "Tell me about your… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
“nobody seemed to think programming is a solved problem: most are still looking for a better way to write software, whether by… — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
It would be just like programmers to shorten 'the year 2000 problem' to 'Y2K'- exactly the kind of thinking that created this… — Stephen C. Meyer 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
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
If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
I actually started in the opposite place. I come from a technical background - I'm a mathematician and a programmer by trade… — Michael Loceff Copy Share Image
My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even… — Robert W. Floyd Copy Share Image
Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols,… — Richard Hatch Copy Share Image
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or… — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the… — Verity Stob Copy Share Image
'On demand' is more than just a series of clicks on your still-too-complicated remote control. In fact, it is now the best… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity,… — Randall E. Stross Copy Share Image
Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of… — Shigeru Miyamoto 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
I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them -… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
In a weird way, riffing on genres is kind of a reaction to formula. When you watch so much of the programmers… — Edgar Wright 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
“It was a mystery with one intriguing clue: programmers from the same companies performed at more or less the same level, even… — Susan Cain 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
All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
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