Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall 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
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
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
In their work, designers often become expert with the device they are designing. Users are often expert at the task they are… — Donald A. Norman 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
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
We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot… — Guy Steele Copy Share Image
Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would… — Linus Torvalds 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
'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 last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank… — Daniel H. Pink 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
Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run,… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs. — Fred Brooks 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
GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers. — Raymond Simard Copy Share Image
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build. — Bjarne Stroustrup 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
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
Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the… — Damian Conway 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
