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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
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
Programmers are Tiny Gods
— Derek Powazek
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
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
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
All programmers are optimists
— Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
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
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
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
— Alan Perlis
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
Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.
— Bertrand Meyer
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
— Larry Niven
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
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
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
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
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
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