Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Programmer Quotes



The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
Orson Scott Card

It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.
Bill Budge

I am a programmer.
Ken Thompson

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
Alan Perlis

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


Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.
Jon Postel

If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?
Shawn Fanning

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
John Carmack

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.
John Carmack

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.
John Carmack

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.
Bram Cohen

From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
Yukihiro Matsumoto

I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.
Robert Patterson

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
Seymoure Cray

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.
Brian Behlendorf

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

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