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Humans make mistakes. Programmers are bound to make mistakes. Hackers, you can bet your life, are going to be there to exploit those mistakes. — Michael Demon Calce

Swear programmers code them to be annoying, pedantic little fucks. — Ann Aguirre

Of all the Programmers' planets, ours is the supercomputing golden child, the world that inexplicably provides enough power to light up the galaxy. — David Eagleman

LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. — Alan Perlis

Programmers are Tiny Gods — Derek Powazek

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel. — Bjarne Stroustrup

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse) — Eric S. Raymond

Programmers must avoid leaving false clues that obscure the meaning of code. — Robert C. Martin

We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp. — Guy Steele

Man is programmed to find the programmer. — Kedar Joshi

Errors in code are what programmers call bugs, though when our programs go wrong, we prefer to call them "unexpected additional features." Very — Paul Wilton

Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people — Douglas Crockford

Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't. — David Gelernter

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else. — Gabe Newell

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management — Eric S. Raymond

GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers. — Raymond Simard

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity. — John Romero

Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first. — Mikhail Botvinnik

Laziness is a programmers main virtue. — Larry Wall

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

The system metaphor is a story that everyone
customers, programmers, and managers
can tell about how the system works. — Kent Beck

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want. — Robin Sloan

The programmers decided the steps everyone on board Hyperion would need to take to do everything from dimming the lights to raising the sails. — Michael Lewis

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

Programmers are expensive. Hardware is cheap. — Karl Lehenbauer

Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night. — Tom Van Vleck

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers. — Niklaus Wirth

Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers. — Will.i.am

All programmers are optimists — Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

The genes are master programmers, and they are programming for their lives. — Richard Dawkins

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

One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it! — John Carmack

Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers. — Robert Anton Wilson

Programmers have a saying: garbage in, garbage out. — Paul Krugman

How many computer programmers does it take to change a light bulb? Are you kidding? That's a hardware problem! — Various

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct. — Larry Wall

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler

Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored. — Bjarne Stroustrup

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability. — Marissa Mayer

Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code. — Steve Lohr

The best computer programmers never write a new program when they can use an old one for a new job. — Gerald M. Weinberg

Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality. — Jessica Livingston

Programmers can be lazy. — Larry Wall

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls. — Charley Pride

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. — 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

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

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis. — Alan Perlis

If we bred better programmers we'd clearly breed better bugs. — Anonymous

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers. — Eric S. Raymond

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

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers. — Jessica Livingston

Programmers are like magicians who fool everyone into thinking they are perfect and never wrong, but it's all an act. They make mistakes all the time. — Zed A. Shaw

The Internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to 'my media,' in which consumers will be their own programmers. — Jerry Yang

There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more. — Megan Smith

Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation. — Bertrand Meyer

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. — Larry Wall

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. — Larry Niven

Programmers Never Die,
They Just Go Offline — Myself

It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done. — Erik Naggum

Any fool can write a test that helps them today. Good programmers write tests that help the entire team in the future. — Anonymous

Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours. — John Carmack

There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them. — Dave Parnas

But I think the writers had their turn," she says, "and now it's programmers who get to upgrade the human operating system. — Robin Sloan

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster. — Niklaus Wirth

Once we were Programmers. Maybe our last best hope is a movie. — Erik Naggum

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C. — Linus Torvalds

Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult. — Bob Barton

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. — Linus Torvalds

Tests are stories we tell the next generation of programmers on a project. — Roy Osherove

An organization that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only. — Bjarne Stroustrup

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. — Tom Van Vleck

I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do. — Kent Beck

C programmers never die. They are just cast into void. — Alan Perlis

Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration. — Edsger Dijkstra

Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN. — Tom Van Vleck

Novice programmers don't yet have the skills to write simple code. — Sandi Metz

Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it. — Richard P. Gabriel

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter. — Bjarne Stroustrup

I always suspected that programmers became programmers because they got to play God with the little universe boxes on their desks. — Jeff Atwood

The best programmers and internet entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area. Don't kid yourself about that, not even for a second. — Jose Ferreira

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. — Linus Torvalds

We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users. — Jeff Atwood