Programmers Quotes

102 quotes by 69 authors

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers. — Jessica Livingston
Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First, many programmers do… — Brian Kernighan
GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers. — Raymond Simard
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations… — Fred Brooks
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. — Alan Perlis
Programmers can be lazy. — Larry Wall
There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them. — David Parnas
Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not… — Marco Arment
Of course, it's hard to support full-time programmers, so we do get funds from a set of companies that are interested in the health of… — Mitchell Baker
It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. — Larry Wall
It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever… — Erik Naggum
One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it! — John Carmack
I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from… — Ellen Ullman
John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio. Johnâ€™s work on id… — Tim Willits
Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually… — Donald Knuth
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. — Tom Van Vleck
Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night. — Tom Van Vleck
Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN. — Tom Van Vleck
Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part… — Jamais Cascio
Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours. — John Carmack

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