Believe Quote by Fred Brooks

“All programmers are optimists”

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

— Larry Wall

“You see, programmers tend to be arrogant, self-absorbed introverts. We didn’t get into this business because we like people. Most of us got into…

— Robert C. Martin

We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.

— Jeff Atwood

Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy…

— Damian Conway

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important…

— Linus Torvalds

Optimists are usually inexperienced.

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a…

— Joel Spolsky

Programmers can be lazy.

— Larry Wall

Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

— Douglas Crockford

It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would…

— Bill Budge

Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces…

— Donald Knuth