Character Quote by Larry Wall

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

— Larry Wall

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.

— Larry Wall

“Larry Wall's classic Programming Perl described the three programmer's virtues: hubris, laziness, and impatience.”

— CJS Hayward

I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.

— Kent Beck

All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty…

— Fred Brooks

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

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

— Doug Linder

“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

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

— Seymour Cray

“Some automatic responses are good — they're skills, and we need them for life and labor. But the tendency to accumulate programming tends to…

— John Shirley

Programmers can be lazy.

— Larry Wall

Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of…

— Tim O'Reilly