Adversity Quote by Robert Anton Wilson

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

— Eric S. Raymond

Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

— Douglas Crockford

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

— Jane McGonigal

“In this business, I find more value in working with hackers who abstract new realities from cast aside code and concepts than academics who…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

— Niklaus Wirth

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and…

— Rick Cook

In the computer industry, you've got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style.…

— Paul Allen

In the '80s, society created a caricature of what a hacker or a programmer looked like: a guy wearing a hoodie, drinking energy drinks,…

— Reshma Saujani

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build…

— Donald Knuth

Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy…

— Damian Conway

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

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build…

— Donald Knuth