Ability Quote by Marissa Mayer

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity…

— Randall E. Stross

“one thing that separates good programmers from bad programmers is that good programmers are more facile at jumping between layers of abstraction—they can keep…

— Peter Seibel

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

— Anonymous

I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his…

— Linus Torvalds

Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them.

— Steve Yegge

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to…

— Linus Torvalds

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

— Anonymous

Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.

— Doron Zeilberger

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

— Doug Linder

In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says…

— Jaan Tallinn

I'm not a programmer; I'm more of a performer. I'm really bad at math.

— Du Yun