Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse) — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability. — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
“Brook’s Law: “Adding more programmers to a late project makes it later.” — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users. — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n. — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling… — Karl Lehenbauer Copy Share Image
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Humans make mistakes. Programmers are bound to make mistakes. Hackers, you can bet your life, are going to be there to exploit… — Michael Demon Calce Copy Share Image
Jolt is for Windows programmers. It's typical IBM PC: it goes in brown and comes out yellow. Mountain Dew is for Macintosh… — Guy Kawasaki 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
Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
The act of focusing our mightiest intellectual resources on the elusive goal of goto-less programs has helped us get our minds off… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First,… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes… — Hayley Mills Copy Share Image
It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours. — John Carmack Copy Share Image
Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
If this code works, it was written by Paul DiLascia. If not, I don't know who wrote it ..I'll be laughing when… — Paul Dilascia Copy Share Image
It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
It would've been amazing [to work as programmer]. You're good at numbers, you're good with people, you like to wear shorts in… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
It is a real service to humanity and the world to be a good programmer, particularly if you design great products. You… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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