Programmer Quotes

75 quotes by 52 authors

Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer… — Larry Tesler
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
Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects… — Donald Knuth
The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in… — Donald Knuth
One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year. — David Parnas
With the exceptional talent that is Guy Sigsworth as producer and collaborator, we have recorded a collection of original songs that sees me moving away… — Alison Moyet
What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? — James Alan Gardner
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of… — Fred Brooks
Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free. — Richard Stallman
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has… — Joseph Weizenbaum
The complexity of C++ (even more complexity has been added in the new C++), and the resulting impact on productivity, is no longer justified. All… — Bruce Eckel
Testing proves a programmerâ€™s failure. Debugging is the programmerâ€™s vindication. — Boris Beizer
I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say Yeah it works but… — Rasmus Lerdorf
The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless — Bram Cohen
Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average programmer,… — Edsger Dijkstra
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
The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer. — Larry Wall
The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer. — Edsger Dijkstra
Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer. — Marvin Minsky
The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology. — Eric Allman

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