If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops,… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
In fact, there are autism clusters, you know, around some of the big tech centers. You take two socially awkward computer programmers… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or… — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user… — Larry Tesler Copy Share Image
Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
There's a popular saying that the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Desire and innovation will trump policy, the… — Virginia Postrel 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
When you choose a language, youre also choosing a community. The programmers youll be able to hire to work on a Java… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request. — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
...when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. — Tom Van Vleck 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
It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein 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
There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in… — Bill Joy 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
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
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
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
