Programmer Quotes

75 quotes by 52 authors

Finding a programmer to work with if you don't already know one will be a challenge. Merely judging if a programmer is exceptional vs. competent… — Jessica Livingston
If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often… — Shawn Fanning
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. — Alan Perlis
By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity. — Oren Peli
Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n. — Joel Spolsky
It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want… — Bill Budge
... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer. — Larry Wall
As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow. — Douglas McIlroy
In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming as if it… — Edsger Dijkstra
I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you donâ€™t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you,… — Joel Spolsky
To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API. — Charles Petzold
The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing… — Ellen Ullman
The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here… — Ellen Ullman
The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer. — Ellen Ullman
I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the… — Yukihiro Matsumoto
Man is programmed to find the programmer. — Kedar Joshi
I actually started in the opposite place. I come from a technical background - I'm a mathematician and a programmer by trade - and I… — Michael Loceff
The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles, maybe 2 to… — Steve Jobs
I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had… — J. Cole

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