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Every programmer is an author. — Sercan Leylek

Did that high-and-mighty attitude of yours come attached to you when you were spawned?!
Was it a bug your programmer couldn't fix?! — CLAMP

The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used. — Fernando J. Corbato

Man is programmed to find the programmer. — Kedar Joshi

Settle yourself down for an apocryphal bedtime story. A programmer's parable, if you will ... . — Anonymous

Programming is not easy like Sunday morning, it is silent poetry. — Waseem Latif

The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer. — Edsger Dijkstra

But Ruby, my language of choice since NewBagel, was invented by a cheerful Japanese programmer, and it reads like friendly, accessible poetry. — Robin Sloan

As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow. — Douglas McIlroy

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API. — Charles Petzold

I was hired as a computer programmer for a national laboratory at age 15. — Andy Weir

I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer. — Kent Beck

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

First solve the problem. Then, write the code. — Waseem Latif

At fifty years old and many years into her second career, she reinvented herself as a computer programmer. — Margot Lee Shetterly

The computer programmer creates the only path available to the computer user; the effect of his decisions on others is masked by their abstraction. — Michael Lewis

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

By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality. — Donald Knuth

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer. — Marvin Minsky

I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. — Kent Beck

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

One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year. — David Parnas

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

I understand that it isn't your fault your programmer had so little imagination. The — Marissa Meyer

You darling is my semicolon. — Waseem Latif

When the superior programmer refrains from coding, his force is felt for a thousand miles. — Eric S. Raymond

I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together. — Dennis Crowley

An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that. — Jon Foreman

A good quant must be a mixture, too - part trader, part salesperson, part programmer, and part mathematician. — Emanuel Derman

I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs. — Fred Brooks

I'm not an entrepreneur. I'm not a CEO. I'm a nerdy computer programmer who likes to have opinions on Twitter. — Markus Persson

The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer. — Larry Wall

You are reading this book for two reasons. First, you are a programmer. Second, you want to be a better programmer. Good. We need better programmers. — Robert C. Martin

I'm not a computer person at all. I only know how to turn them on. I'm not a programmer. I couldn't program my way out of a paper bag. — Rick Smolan

Testing proves a programmer's failure. Debugging is the programmer's vindication. — Boris Beizer

Once a programmer had a problem. He thought he could solve it with a regular expression. Now he had two problems. — Jamie Zawinski

I am a programmer. — Ken Thompson

Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate the simplicity.. — Dennis Ritchie

Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free. — Richard Stallman

This works, but it's hard to imagine that anybody except a hard-core functional programmer would consider it pretty. — Anonymous

My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture. — Gene Luen Yang

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

Programming is usually taught by examples. — Waseem Latif

You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference. — Rebecca MacKinnon

Think twice, code once. — Waseem Latif

Betty Snyder, who, under her married name, Betty Holberton, went on to become a pioneer programmer who helped develop the COBOL and Fortran languages, — Walter Isaacson

When fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor. — Fred Brooks

The world is changing, and I believe that, if I want to stay employed as a programmer, I'm going to have to change with it. — Kent Beck

It is not the language that makes programs appear simple. It is the programmer that make the language appear simple! — Robert C. Martin

An algorithm is like a recipe. — Waseem Latif

Larry Wall's classic Programming Perl described the three programmer's virtues: hubris, laziness, and impatience. — C.J.S. Hayward

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. — Eric Raymond

The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea. — Rick Cook

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

It's funny: I was a photographer before I was a programmer. — Kevin Systrom

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall

By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.' — Oren Peli

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time — Eric S. Raymond

Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer — Sunday Adelaja

The programmer who refuses to keep exploring will surely stagnate, forget his joy, lose the will to program (and become a manager). — Marijn Haverbeke

It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive. — Steve McConnell

What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? — James Alan Gardner

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

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

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person's job. — Michael Crichton

From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request. — Pharrell Williams

The idea was that while one person wrote code, the other programmer would massage his or her shoulders; then they would switch. — Nick Bilton

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

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

It has to become second nature, for a programmer, to notice when a concept is begging to be abstracted into a new word. — Marijn Haverbeke

I don't like the feeling, but I've got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer. — Kent Beck

Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n. — Joel Spolsky

A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. — Doug Linder