Programming Quote by Wiki Books

When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer…

— Howard Rheingold

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

— Steve Yegge

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

— Bill Joy

If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers…

— Jamie Zawinski

The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and you have…

— John Carmack

Most developer tools try to shield you from actually writing code in constructing the GUI bits or the database bits. Yet when you do…

— James Gosling

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing…

— Alan Kay

There are also a lot of really, really good developers out there - people like me who have done this for years who really…

— George Clarke

“minimum software requirements to program in C is a text editor, as opposed to a word processor. A plain text Notepad Editor can be…

— Wiki Books

I know there are pros and cons about the studio system.

— Cyd Charisse

An interactive debugger is an outstanding example of what is not needed - it encourages trial-and-error hacking rather than systematic design, and also hides…

— Harlan Mills

My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of…

— Bjarne Stroustrup