Cobol Quote by Tom Van Vleck

There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time…

— Bill Joy

C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good

— Bertrand Meyer

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

— Larry Wall

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

— Alan Perlis

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

— Alan Perlis

This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle…

— Douglas McIlroy

“And there is one disconcerting thing about working with a computer – it's likely to talk back to you. You make some tiny mistake…

— John Drury Clark

You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

— Bill Joy

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable

— Per Brinch Hansen

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

— Eric S. Raymond

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

“I’ve programmed in all kinds of languages, said the tough old hacker as he eased up to the bar, and it don’t matter which…

— Paul Graham