Programmers Quotes

102 quotes by 69 authors

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified… — James Gleick
Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality. — Jessica Livingston
When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology, — Howard Rheingold
Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people — Douglas Crockford
The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else. — Gabe Newell
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis. — Alan Perlis
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void. — Alan Perlis
America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want. — Robin Sloan
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored. — Bjarne Stroustrup
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
In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was… — Esther Dyson
If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start… — Edsger Dijkstra
There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FÃ˜RTRAN. They write more code in less time than… — Bill Joy
To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above… — Edwin Newman
When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is nothing more precise… — Amari Cooper
The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works. — Kent Beck
The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future, — Gabe Newell
As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct. — Larry Wall
A hacker is someone who enjoys playful clevernessâ€”not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s… — Richard Stallman
Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge… — Linus Torvalds

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