Programmers Quotes · Page 7

C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.

— Alan Perlis

A data structure is just a stupid programming language.

— Bill Gosper

The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.

— Ellen Ullman

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

— Tony Hoare

“Most programmers write too many tests.”

— Anonymous

“Brook’s Law: “Adding more programmers to a late project makes it later.”

— Eric S. Raymond

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

— Brian Kernighan

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

— Charley Pride

The best programmers and internet entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area. Don't kid yourself about that, not even for a second.

— Jose Ferreira

“Master programmers think of systems as stories to be told rather than programs to be written.”

— Robert C. Martin

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

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

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

— Marissa Mayer

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the…

— Ambrose Bierce

Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he…

— Erik Naggum

I've always felt that people's ears are wider than programmers are ever wiling to give them credit for. It's always been very…

— Donnie Simpson

If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later…

— Bill Joy

You become a serious programmer by going through a stage where you are fully aware of the degree to which you know…

— Erik Naggum

...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively…

— Edsger Dijkstra

“What was amazing was that a large team of highly intelligent programmers could labor so hard and so long on such an…

— Anonymous

When we look at these historical women and what they've gone through, it's shocking to recognize some of our own experiences in…

— Anita Sarkeesian

[Sundance] still feels significant. I don't think you can help but come here and not feel that sense of history and its…

— Elijah Wood

The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a…

— Fred Brooks

With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major 'bugs' and does not work reliably for some users...…

— David Parnas

Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.

— Sam Ewing

We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.

— Jeff Atwood

Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.

— Edsger Dijkstra

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

— Anonymous

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

— Eric S. Raymond

Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n.

— Joel Spolsky

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.

— Coco Chanel

Programmers are expensive. Hardware is cheap.

— Karl Lehenbauer

Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office…

— Marco Arment

Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and…

— Guido van Rossum