Programmers Quotes · Page 5

Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them.

— Steve Yegge

I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.

— Dennis Crowley

I've always sort of been at odds with radio programmers.

— Leon Russell

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

— Eric S. Raymond

Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code.

— Steve Lohr

Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication.

— Boris Beizer

If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if…

— Bill Gates

I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like…

— Jon Foreman

“Pragmatic Programmers are different. We are driven to find our bugs now, so we don't have to endure the shame of others…

— Andrew Hunt

GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.

— Raymond Simard

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

— Jessica Livingston

Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user…

— Larry Tesler

The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

— Edsger Dijkstra

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

— Brian Kernighan

Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it… If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code…

— Tony Hoare

Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because…

— Donald Knuth

I used to want to be a computer programmer when I was younger. We got an Apple II Plus when I was,…

— Chris Parnell

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have…

— Bill Gates

... programming requires more concentration than other activities. It's the reason programmers get upset about 'quick interruptions' - such interruptions are tantamount…

— Steve McConnell

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

Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some…

— Temple Grandin

Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be…

— Richard Stallman

Programmers seem to be changing the world. It would be a relief, for them and for all of us, if they knew…

— Ellen Ullman

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or…

— Linus Torvalds

I don't like the feeling, but I've got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer.

— Kent Beck

I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of…

— David Parnas

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

— Seymour Cray

...when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more…

— Fred Brooks

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

— Charley Pride

By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

— Donald Knuth

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

— Jose Ferreira

Labor-rich manufacturing doesn't exist anymore. Manufacturing jobs are white-collar, Silicon Valley programmers or highly-skilled technicians. They are not going to employ lots…

— David Brooks

Teaming up with the scientists, researchers and computer programmers at Intel to collaborate and co-develop new ways to communicate, create, inform and…

— will.i.am

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is…

— Linus Torvalds

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

The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard…

— Tony Hoare

I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my…

— Maurice Wilkes

Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce…

— John Fowler

To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders,…

— Edwin Newman