Attitude Quote by Alan Perlis

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

— Larry Wall

“And there is one disconcerting thing about working with a computer – it's likely to talk back to you. You make some tiny mistake…

— John Drury Clark

A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.

— Doug Linder

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

— Larry Wall

Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.

— Tom Van Vleck

“Anyone who has ever seen a programmer at work... knows that programming itself, if the programmer is given the chance to do it his…

— Dave Hoover

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

— Anonymous

Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and…

— Bill Gates

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

— Douglas Crockford

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

— Anonymous

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

— Niklaus Wirth