Brain Quote by Marco Arment

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

... programming requires more concentration than other activities. It's the reason programmers get upset about 'quick interruptions' - such interruptions are tantamount to asking…

— Steve McConnell

“Saying that programmers should just accomplish twice as much doesn't work. They can gain skills and effectiveness, but they cannot get more done on…

— Kent Beck

Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

— Douglas Crockford

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

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

“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

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

To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Programmers can be lazy.

— Larry Wall

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

— Seymour Cray

“While this [10 to 1] productivity differential among programmers is understandable, there is also a 10 to 1 difference in productivity among software organizations”

— Tom DeMarco