Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users. — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. — Grady Booch Copy Share Image
The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are… — Harlan Mills 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
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. — Stan Kelly-Bootle Copy Share Image
Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night. — Tom Van Vleck Copy Share Image
“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch… — Rick Cook Copy Share Image
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler Copy Share Image
The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To… — 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
By the mid-1990s the number of people with some experience of using computers was many orders of magnitude greater than in the… — Igor Aleksander Copy Share Image
One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has… — Peter Norvig Copy Share Image
The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the… — Paul Vixie 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
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 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
“What was amazing was that a large team of highly intelligent programmers could labor so hard and so long on such an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio. John’s… — Tim Willits Copy Share Image
...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the mid-1980s, however, the Estonian TV programmers came up with a clever idea: they asked Moscow for millions of rubles to… — Jaak Kilmi Copy Share Image
Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n. — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
“Pragmatic Programmers won't sit idly by and watch their projects fall apart through neglect.” — Andrew Hunt Copy Share Image
... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
“Brook’s Law: “Adding more programmers to a late project makes it later.” — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
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