Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality. — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
The cowboy movies is not our go-to programmer anymore, here's a horror film. — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there. — Gordon Bell 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
I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my… — Maurice Wilkes 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
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it. — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability. — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
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
Our society expects that everyone should learn to write, even though very few become professional writers. Similarly, I think that everyone should… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an… — Andy Hertzfeld 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
In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming… — Edsger Dijkstra 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
“I have long enjoyed asking candidate programmers, "Where is next November?" If the question is too cryptic, then, "Tell me about your… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i.e., the conceptual structure… — Fred Brooks 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
“Programmers are isolated. They sit in their cubicle; they don't think about the larger picture. To my mind, a programmer is not… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
“Software development requires the cooperation of everyone on the team. Programmers are often called “developers,” but in reality everyone on the team… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it. Our applications are complex because we are ambitious to use our computers… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts… — Donald Knuth 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 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
Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one. — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers. — will.i.am Copy Share Image
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