A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. — Alan Perlis 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
We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty,… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Of course, it's hard to support full-time programmers, so we do get funds from a set of companies that are interested in… — Mitchell Baker Copy Share Image
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
Pinball games were constrained by physical limitations, ultimately by the physical laws that govern the motion of a small metal ball. The… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together. — Dennis Crowley 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter. — Bjarne Stroustrup 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
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
One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy.… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image