Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality. — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I love computer programmers. They have a very beautiful definition of complexity as 'the capacity to transmit the maximum information with the… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot… — Guy Steele Copy Share Image
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall 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
I think once the artistic world of the type designer merged with the scientific world of the computer programmer, you began to… — Michael Bierut 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
“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
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
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
Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the… — Damian Conway Copy Share Image
Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Not having a schedule is OK if it's your PhD and you plan to spend 14 years on the thing, or if… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
It is, therefore, possible to extend a partially specified interpretation to a complete interpretation, without loss of verifiability... This fact offers the… — Robert W. Floyd Copy Share Image
I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but… — Gerald Weinberg Copy Share Image
The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the… — John Carmack 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
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major 'bugs' and does not work reliably for some users...… — David Parnas Copy Share Image
When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is… — Amari Cooper Copy Share Image
Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
With the exceptional talent that is Guy Sigsworth as producer and collaborator, we have recorded a collection of original songs that sees… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.” — Fred Brooks 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
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
