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
“Saying that programmers should just accomplish twice as much doesn't work. They can gain skills and effectiveness, but they cannot get more… — Kent Beck 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
I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
When you have a programmer-founded company it often gets really techy, if you have a producer or a business-person, it all really… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I don't like the feeling, but I've got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer. — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements. — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls. — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. — Seymour Cray Copy Share Image
The best programmers and internet entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area. Don't kid yourself about that, not even for a second. — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
“Master programmers think of systems as stories to be told rather than programs to be written.” — Robert C. Martin Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think that programmers wares are programs. Programmers have to produce trustworthy solutions and present it in the… — 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
Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for… — Edsger Dijkstra 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
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
Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task,… — Anonymous 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
You become a serious programmer by going through a stage where you are fully aware of the degree to which you know… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
