Programming Quote by Frederick P. Brooks Jr

The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion…

— Anonymous

“Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff.…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

“The art of programming is the skill of controlling complexity.”

— Marijn Haverbeke

“The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the…

— Marijn Haverbeke

“Every person's mental programming is partly unique, partly shared with others.”

— Geert Hofstede

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

— Donald Knuth

“Programming is not about what you know. It's about what you can figure out.”

— Socrates

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think…

— Larry Wall

“I didn't know that empty rationalization was part of your programming," said Ram. "We would not be fit companions for human beings without it.”

— Orson Scott Card

“Habits, not ideas, are the programming language of human beings”

— Danny Dover

“In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.”

— Nicholas Carr

“Anyone who has ever seen a programmer at work... knows that programming itself, if the programmer is given the chance to do it his…

— Dave Hoover