Programmers Quotes

102 quotes by 69 authors

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated… — Edsger Dijkstra
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though… — Peter Drucker
Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability. — Marissa Mayer
Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in… — Shigeru Miyamoto
The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls. — Charley Pride
If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of… — Richard Stallman
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. — Linus Torvalds
Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they… — Linus Torvalds
Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers. — will.i.am
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. — Larry Niven
All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see… — Seth Godin
This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love. — Meg Cabot
Our society expects that everyone should learn to write, even though very few become professional writers. Similarly, I think that everyone should learn how to… — Mitchel Resnick
Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your… — Richard Hatch
In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class… — Yukihiro Matsumoto
In the beginning, there were Real Programmers. — Eric S. Raymond
My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers… — Bjarne Stroustrup
Computer programmers do it byte by byte — Alan Kay
Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much more… — John Fowler
On every full moon, rituals such as the one described above take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers,… — Starhawk

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