Programmers Quotes

102 quotes by 69 authors

I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one -… — Elizabeth Warren
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. Its logic-based creativity. — John Romero
My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers. — Niklaus Wirth
Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers. — Robert Anton Wilson
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly… — John Naughton
Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless as… — John Naughton
Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. â€¦ Ask him why he thinks he should… — Erik Naggum
The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and you have all… — John Carmack
Now that I have the knowledge and I can speak to programmers better and I understand a lot more about what's possible and what's not… — Shaun White
We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we… — Edsger Dijkstra
Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. — Linus Torvalds
...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For… — Edsger Dijkstra
In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them. Now, however, time-sharing… — Robert Fano
Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't. — David Gelernter
Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify… — David Gelernter
Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it… — Brian Kernighan
When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability. The result, after… — Richard E. Pattis
Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult. — Bob Barton
By the mid-1990s the number of people with some experience of using computers was many orders of magnitude greater than in the 1960s. In the… — Igor Aleksander
Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first. — Mikhail Botvinnik

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