Personal space Quote by Susan Cain

“That’s because top performers overwhelmingly worked for companies that gave their workers the most privacy, personal space, control over their physical environments, and freedom…

— Susan Cain

“computers on everybody’s desk. The PC, which previously could have been dismissed as a technophile’s tinker-toy, was now becoming the essential business productivity tool.…

— John Wiley and Sons

Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is…

— Marco Arment

“The reality is a lot more mundane: design and programming are just professions—sets of skills and practices, just like any other field. Admitting that…

— Sara Wachter-Boettcher

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

“I should have known from watching Henry work at the office: programmers moved slowly and deliberately, and then waited to see the reaction. And…

— Jodi Picoult

“Jobs was a strong-willed, elitist artist who didn't want his creations mutated inauspiciously by unworthy programmers. To him it would be as if someone…

— Walter Isaacson

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

— Eric S. Raymond

One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own…

— Peter Norvig

“In 1973 the companies and individuals later to be identified with the advent of the personal computer were otherwise engaged. IBM was still turning…

— Michael A. Hiltzik

People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.

— Ellen Ullman

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