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Programmer Quotes by Joel Spolsky
- Not having a schedule is OK if it's your PhD and you plan to spend 14 years on the thing, or if you're a programmer…
- Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n.
- If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you,…
More Programmer Quotes
- Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share… — John Carmack
- Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall
- Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul. — John Carmack
- Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication. — Boris Beizer
- 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
- God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will… — Orson Scott Card
- The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. — Seymour Cray
- The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have… — Bill Gates