Awkward Quote by John Naughton

Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

— Douglas Crockford

Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.

— David Platt

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

— Anonymous

I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that they see…

— Walter Mosley

“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

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

— Larry Niven

The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.

— Ellen Ullman

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

— Niklaus Wirth

“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

The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is…

— Ellen Ullman

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

— Seth Lloyd

People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.

— Ellen Ullman