Desert Quote by John Carmack

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

— Seymour Cray

Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

— Douglas Crockford

A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.

— Doug Linder

It would've been amazing [to work as programmer]. You're good at numbers, you're good with people, you like to wear shorts in the summertime.

— Jimmy Fallon

Programmers can be lazy.

— Larry Wall

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

— Anonymous

“The programmer community is thick with stereotypes: greybeards (old guys with vast knowledge of arcane programming languages); script kiddies (unskilled hackers causing chaos with…

— Nick Parish

Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is…

— Marco Arment

Programmers seem to be changing the world. It would be a relief, for them and for all of us, if they knew something about…

— Ellen Ullman

The world of programmers is not going to change on its own.

— Ellen Ullman

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

— Larry Wall

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