Certain Quote by Niklaus Wirth

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

Humans make mistakes. Programmers are bound to make mistakes. Hackers, you can bet your life, are going to be there to exploit those mistakes.

— Michael Demon Calce

Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

— Douglas Crockford

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

— Seymour Cray

Programmers can be lazy.

— Larry Wall

“W. Edwards Deming—that arguably, over 90 percent of problems are due to bad systems, not bad people. However, Greenleaf correctly points out that people…

— Robert K. Greenleaf

To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accomodations with…

— Ellen Ullman

“A great programmer, on a roll, could create a million dollars worth of wealth in a couple weeks. A mediocre programmer over the same…

— Paul Graham

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

— Linus Torvalds

Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult.

— Bob Barton

The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion…

— Anonymous

Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless…

— John Naughton