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Every programmer is an author.
— Sercan Leylek
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
The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.
— Edsger Dijkstra
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
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 mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.
— Bram Cohen
Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.
— Marvin Minsky
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
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
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
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
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
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
It's funny: I was a photographer before I was a programmer.
— Kevin Systrom
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
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
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I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.
— Robert Patterson
