Programmers Quotes

102 quotes by 69 authors

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. — Seymour Cray
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel. — Bjarne Stroustrup
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that… — Bill Bryson
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. — Larry Wall
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who… — Daniel H. Pink
I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data… — Linus Torvalds
We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about… — Guy Steele
Laziness is a programmers main virtue. — Larry Wall
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse) — Eric S. Raymond
The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management — Eric S. Raymond
Teaming up with the scientists, researchers and computer programmers at Intel to collaborate and co-develop new ways to communicate, create, inform and entertain is going… — will.i.am
I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer. — Kent Beck
The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of… — Randall E. Stross
The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least… — Niklaus Wirth
Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster. — Niklaus Wirth
An organization that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only. — Bjarne Stroustrup
... programming requires more concentration than other activities. It's the reason programmers get upset about 'quick interruptions' - such interruptions are tantamount to asking a… — Steve McConnell
There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code… — Joel Spolsky
My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even though programmers are… — Robert W. Floyd

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