Degrees Quote by Peter Norvig

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

— Doug Linder

I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

— Kent Beck

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful,…

— Joseph Weizenbaum

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

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

“It was a mystery with one intriguing clue: programmers from the same companies performed at more or less the same level, even though they…

— Susan Cain

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

— Anonymous

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work…

— Seth Godin

“What programmer didn’t live with a deadline over his head?”

— B.V. Larson

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

— Steve Yegge

It would've been amazing [to work as programmer]. You're good at numbers, you're good with people, you like to wear shorts in the summertime.

— Jimmy Fallon

I was a programmer.

— Paul Allen