Creating Quote by Richard Stallman

“The ability to violate our own programming is what makes us us. It's what makes us like them. I never wanted to be like…

— C. Robert Cargill

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do…

— Eric Allman

It is a mistake to think that programmers wares are programs. Programmers have to produce trustworthy solutions and present it in the form of…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.

— Richard Stallman

There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program

— Edward Yourdon

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never…

— Linus Torvalds

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

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

— Donald Knuth

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

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

— Erik Naggum

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

— Miguel de Icaza