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“Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff.…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the…

— Joseph Weizenbaum

“The programmer at wit's end for lack of space can often do best by disentangling himself from his code, rearing back, and contemplating his…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

— Eric S. Raymond

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 computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the…

— Marijn Haverbeke

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.

— John Romero

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful,…

— Joseph Weizenbaum

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

— Donald Knuth

Programmers are very creative people. And animators are problem solvers, just as programmers are.

— Edwin Catmull

The truth is I'm not actually an expert programmer! I really don't consider myself to be an expert at anything. For me, it's more…

— Aaron Koblin

Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of…

— Tim O'Reilly