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Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey. ~ Orson Scott Card
Programmers quotes by Orson Scott Card
Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster. ~ Niklaus Wirth
Programmers quotes by Niklaus Wirth
The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls. ~ Charley Pride
Programmers quotes by Charley Pride
I've used the common wooden pencil in some of my writing as an example. When I ask audiences which is "simpler", a digital pencil like Microsoft Word or a wooden pencil, people agree the wooden variety is simpler. Until I point out that Microsoft Word was written by eight programmers, while the wooden variety involved thousands, none of whom could appreciate the full complexity of harvesting lumber, mining graphite, smelting metals, making lacquer, growing rapeseed for oil, etc. The complexity was there in the pencil, but hidden from the user. ~ Brad Cox
Programmers quotes by Brad Cox
The difference between a bad programmer and a good programmer is understanding. That is, bad programmers don't understand what they are doing and good programmers do. - Max Kanat-Alexander ~ Steve Fenton
Programmers quotes by Steve Fenton
The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity. ~ Tony Hoare
Programmers quotes by Tony Hoare
I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. ~ J. Cole
Programmers quotes by J. Cole
Programmers have been wandering out and shooting a shotgun into the night sky and hoping they hit something, and I end up paying $150 for channels full of nothing I want to watch. ~ Rick Smolan
Programmers quotes by Rick Smolan
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals. ~ Henry Spencer
Programmers quotes by Henry Spencer
What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months. ~ Fred Brooks
Programmers quotes by Fred Brooks
Linux provides programmers with everything they need: libraries, compilers, and debugging/development tools. These features are included in all standard Linux versions. ~ Andrew Johansen
Programmers quotes by Andrew Johansen
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
Programmers quotes by John Carmack
Teaming up with the scientists, researchers and computer programmers at Intel to collaborate and co-develop new ways to communicate, create, inform and entertain is going to be amazing. ~ Will.i.am
Programmers quotes by Will.i.am
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
Programmers quotes by Tom Van Vleck
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. ~ Edsger Dijkstra
Programmers quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
You see, programmers tend to be arrogant, self-absorbed introverts. We didn't get into this business because we like people. Most of us got into programming because we prefer to deeply focus on sterile minutia, juggle lots of concepts simultaneously, and in general prove to ourselves that we have brains the size of a planet, all while not having to interact with the messy complexities of other people. ~ Robert C. Martin
Programmers quotes by Robert C. Martin
The company I invested in is probably a leader in that area. They're a company called Second Spectrum, which happens to be based in LA but was started by two USC computer-science professors. It's filled with guys who love sports, who played sports, but really look like programmers. ~ Steve Ballmer
Programmers quotes by Steve Ballmer
Think of the many articles one can find every year in the Wall Street Journal describing some entrepreneur or businessman as being a "pioneer" or a "maverick" or a "cowboy." Think of the many times these ambitious modern men are described as "staking their claim" or boldly pushing themselves "beyond the frontier" or even "riding into the sunset." We still use this nineteenth-century lexicon to describe our boldest citizens, but it's really a code now, because these guys aren't actually pioneers; they are talented computer programmers, biogenetic researchers, politicians, or media monguls making a big splash in a fast modern economy.

But when Eustace Conway talks about staking a claim, the guy is literally staking a goddamn claim. Other frontier expressions that the rest of us use as metaphors, Eustace uses literally. He does sit tall in the saddle; he does keep his powder dry; he is carving out a homestead. When he talks about reining in horses or calling off the dogs or mending fences, you can be sure that there are real horses, real dogs or real fences in the picture. And when Eustace goes in for the kill, he's not talking about a hostile takeover of a rival company; he's talking about really killing something. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Programmers quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
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
Programmers quotes by Erik Naggum
We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users. ~ Jeff Atwood
Programmers quotes by Jeff Atwood
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
Programmers quotes by John Carmack
Saying that programmers should just accomplish twice as much doesn't work. They can gain skills and effectiveness, but they cannot get more done on demand. More time at the desk does not equal increased productivity for creative work. ~ Kent Beck
Programmers quotes by Kent Beck
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. ~ Tom Van Vleck
Programmers quotes by Tom Van Vleck
Quality must be enforced, otherwise it won't happen. We programmers must be required to write tests, otherwise we won't do it. ~ Yegor Bugayenko
Programmers quotes by Yegor Bugayenko
Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult. ~ Bob Barton
Programmers quotes by Bob Barton
Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers. ~ Bjarne Stroustrup
Programmers quotes by Bjarne Stroustrup
I find that creative streak I think often leads in programmers to be good predictors of where culture as a whole is going to go. And that is where I think I've tried over the years to in some ways use my customers as a filter or a predictor of where technology as a whole is going to go. Or where the world as a whole is going to go. ~ Tim O'Reilly
Programmers quotes by Tim O'Reilly
I didn't realize how good I was with technology until I met my parents ... my dad told me "You're good; you should be a computer programmer." I said, "You're bad ... you should be a caveman." ~ Mike Birbiglia
Programmers quotes by Mike Birbiglia
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity. ~ James Gleick
Programmers quotes by James Gleick
Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't. ~ David Gelernter
Programmers quotes by David Gelernter
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity. ~ John Romero
Programmers quotes by John Romero
Now that I have the knowledge and I can speak to programmers better and I understand a lot more about what's possible and what's not possible, this will all help with the next game, ~ Shaun White
Programmers quotes by Shaun White
Software development requires the cooperation of everyone on the team. Programmers are often called "developers," but in reality everyone on the team is part of the development effort. When you share the work, customers identify the next requirements while programmers work on the current ones. Testers help the team figure out how to stop introducing bugs. Programmers spread the cost of technical infrastructure over the entire life of the project. Above all, everyone helps keep everything clean. ~ Anonymous
Programmers quotes by Anonymous
Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto
Programmers quotes by Shigeru Miyamoto
Most literature on the subject of agile methodology... is written from the viewpoint of software developers and programmers, and tends to place its main emphasis on programming techniques and agile project management - testing is usually only mentioned in the guise of unit testing and its associated tools. ...However, unit tests alone are not sufficient and broader-based testing is critical to the success of agile development processes. ~ Tilo Linz
Programmers quotes by Tilo Linz
I should have known from watching Henry work at the office: programmers moved slowly and deliberately, and then waited to see the reaction. And if they did not succeed the first time, they would try over and over again, until they broke through that fifth dimension and got it right. ~ Jodi Picoult
Programmers quotes by Jodi Picoult
Most non-programmers don't think of plaintext like that. To them, text files feel like filling in tax forms for an angry robotic auditor that yells at them if they forget a single semicolon. ~ Robert Nystrom
Programmers quotes by Robert Nystrom
An organization that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only. ~ Bjarne Stroustrup
Programmers quotes by Bjarne Stroustrup
When we take the position that it is not only the programmer's responsibility to produce a correct program but also to demonstrate its correctness in a convincing manner, then the above remarks have a profound influence on the programmer's activity: the object he has to produce must be usefully structured. ~ Edsger Dijkstra
Programmers quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
Swear programmers code them to be annoying, pedantic little fucks. ~ Ann Aguirre
Programmers quotes by Ann Aguirre
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly great programmers are like great poets or great mathematicians - they can achieve in a few lines what lesser mortals can only approach in three volumes ~ John Naughton
Programmers quotes by John Naughton
Advertising revenue available for all programmers, all broadcasters is not enough to create quality programming, and subscription revenues are very, very minimal which come to all programmers. ~ Subhash Chandra
Programmers quotes by Subhash Chandra
We, newbies and young programmers, don't like chaos because it makes us dependent on experts. We have to beg for information and feel bad ~ Yegor Bugayenko
Programmers quotes by Yegor Bugayenko
As Pragmatic Programmers, our base material isn't wood or iron, it's knowledge. We gather requirements as knowledge, and then express that knowledge in our designs, implementations, tests, and documents. ~ Andrew Hunt
Programmers quotes by Andrew Hunt
it's confusing to have a controller and a manager and a driver in the same
code base. What is the essential difference between a DeviceManager and a Protocol-Controller? Why are both not controllers or both not managers? Are they both Drivers really? The name leads you to expect two objects that have very different type as well as
having different classes.

A consistent lexicon is a great boon to the programmers who must use your code. ~ Robert C. Martin
Programmers quotes by Robert C. Martin
Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much more for systems programmers, not enterprise developers. ~ John Fowler
Programmers quotes by John Fowler
To initiate the debugger, all you have to do is import the pdb built-in module and run its set_trace function. You'll often see this done in a single line so programmers can comment it out with a single # character. ~ Brett Slatkin
Programmers quotes by Brett Slatkin
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
Programmers quotes by Gabe Newell
It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. ~ Larry Wall
Programmers quotes by Larry Wall
I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned more fear-preventing tools than any other language, but the solution should have been to create and use a language that does not overload the whole goddamn human brain with irrelevant details. ~ Erik Naggum
Programmers quotes by Erik Naggum
If there's one thing you should know about dealing with programmers is do not distract them. Wait for them to come to you. Just put your request in the queue. Never expect a programmer to do something immediately. ~ Anonymous
Programmers quotes by Anonymous
And what if they took over? What if they relieved us of power? We tend to assume that sentient machines would be inevitably demonic. But what if they were responsible leaders? Could they do much worse than we've done? They would immediately institute a system of laws. The constitution would be algorithmic. They would govern the world according to functions and the axioms their programmers gave them. ~ Louisa Hall
Programmers quotes by Louisa Hall
Those in authority tend to be annoyed by hackers' general attitude of disobedience. But that disobedience is a byproduct of the qualities that make them good programmers. ~ Paul Graham
Programmers quotes by Paul Graham
Hackers, makers, programmers, engineers, nerds, techies - what we'll call "geeks" for the rest of the book (deal with it) - we're a creative lot who don't like to be told what to do. ~ Jeff Potter
Programmers quotes by Jeff Potter
Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First, many programmers do not use such compilers because They're not efficient. (Presumably, this means that it is vital to get the wrong answers quickly.) ~ Brian Kernighan
Programmers quotes by Brian Kernighan
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
Programmers quotes by Rick Cook
What a waste of time it would be to insist that everyone develop each of the specialties we call upon to an equal level. We'd get bogged down in remedial training programs, trying to get the cornet players up to speed with the computer programmers, sacrificing the tends to be exceptional in so many individual situations in order to be average in all of them. ~ Robert Watson
Programmers quotes by Robert Watson
Digitisation will rather consolidate the broadcasting industry in India because once the cable is digitized, then naturally all the programmers can showcase their programming. ~ Subhash Chandra
Programmers quotes by Subhash Chandra
To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accomodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable. ~ Ellen Ullman
Programmers quotes by Ellen Ullman
The buzz about Google these days is that it's like America itself: still the biggest game in town, but inevitably and irrevocably on the decline. Both are superpowers with unmatched resources, but both are faced with fast-growing rivals, and both will eventually be eclipsed. For America, that rival is China. For Google, it's Facebook. (This is all from tech-gossip blogs, so take it with a grain of salt. They also say a startup called MonkeyMoney is going to be huge next year.) But here's the difference: staring down the inevitable, America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever they want. ~ Robin Sloan
Programmers quotes by Robin Sloan
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void. ~ Alan Perlis
Programmers quotes by Alan Perlis
In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses. ~ Esther Dyson
Programmers quotes by Esther Dyson
With the revolution around 1980 of PCs, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers - not to replace office workers, but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It increased their capabilities. ~ Rodney Brooks
Programmers quotes by Rodney Brooks
Tests are stories we tell the next generation of programmers on a project. ~ Roy Osherove
Programmers quotes by Roy Osherove
A very good senior programmer (who might get paid $200,000) gets paid about the same as a great programmer, who delivers $5 million worth of value for the same price. That's enough of a difference to build an entire company's profit around. Do it with ten programmers and you're rich. ~ Seth Godin
Programmers quotes by Seth Godin
Hiro and Y.T. have eaten a lot of junk food together in different joints all
over L.A. -- doughnuts, burritos, pizza, sushi, you name it -- and all Y.T. ever
talks about is her mother and the terrible job that she has with the Feds. The
regimentation. The lie-detector tests. The fact that for all the work she
does, she really has no idea what it is that the government is really working
on.
It's always been a mystery to Hiro, too, but then, that's how the government is.
It was invented to do stuff that private enterprise doesn't bother with, which
means that there's probably no reason for it; you never know what they're doing
or why. Hackers have traditionally looked upon the government's coding
sweatshops with horror and just tried to forget that all of that shit ever
existed.
But they have thousands of programmers. The programmers work twelve hours a day
out of some twisted sense of personal loyalty. Their software-engineering
techniques, while cruel and ugly, are very sophisticated. They must have been
up to something. ~ Neal Stephenson
Programmers quotes by Neal Stephenson
Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people ~ Douglas Crockford
Programmers quotes by Douglas Crockford
If this code works, it was written by Paul DiLascia. If not, I don't know who wrote it ..I'll be laughing when I'm old and and all my programmer friends have gone alexic from staring at too many tiny pixels ~ Paul Dilascia
Programmers quotes by Paul Dilascia
John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio. John's work on id Tech 5 and the technology for the current development work at id is complete, and his departure will not affect any current projects. We are fortunate to have a brilliant group of programmers at id who worked with John and will carry on id's tradition of making great games with cutting-edge technology. As colleagues of John for many years, we wish him well. ~ Tim Willits
Programmers quotes by Tim Willits
Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer. ~ Marvin Minsky
Programmers quotes by Marvin Minsky
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
Programmers quotes by Oren Peli
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
Programmers quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored. ~ Bjarne Stroustrup
Programmers quotes by Bjarne Stroustrup
In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming as if it were a production process and measure "programmer productivity" in terms of "number of lines of code produced". In so doing they book that number on the wrong side of the ledger: we should always refer to "the number of lines of code spent". ~ Edsger Dijkstra
Programmers quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
Perhaps because of the special nature of the TIA, or perhaps because of the limitless human capacity for technical fascination, programmers have continued to hack at and develop original VCS games. There is a thriving hobbyist community that has picked up the Atari VCS, using and refining emulators, writing disassemblers and development tools, and even manufacturing cartridges and selling them, complete with boxes and manuals. This "homebrew" scene could be seen, strictly speaking, as continuing the commercial life of the Atari VCS, but the community is not very corporate. It operates on the scale of zines and unsigned bands, with most recent ROMs offered for free online - even if they are also sold in limited releases of a few hundred copies in cartridge form. ~ Nick Montfort
Programmers quotes by Nick Montfort
When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is nothing more precise than code, there is also nothing more permanent or resistant to change. So the situation frequently crops up where nomenclature confusion drives programmers to begin coding prematurely, and that code becomes the de facto design, regardless of its appropriateness or correctness. ~ Amari Cooper
Programmers quotes by Amari Cooper
Yeah, young coders abound, but mostly only string together preassembled digital beads, and even today's brightest young nerdlets aren't immune to eventual wrinkles. As for real experts, well, as the dawn of the computer age recedes, so too have the hairlines of your true computer wizards, the males I mean. We females never change, we are eternally young. ~ Rajnar Vajra
Programmers quotes by Rajnar Vajra
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
Programmers quotes by Linus Torvalds
Programmers are Tiny Gods ~ Derek Powazek
Programmers quotes by Derek Powazek
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 quotes by Robert C. Martin
The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making. ~ Edsger Dijkstra
Programmers quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it. ~ Richard P. Gabriel
Programmers quotes by Richard P. Gabriel
A company that is not designed to create high-tech products is very unlikely to have the culture or the DNA that it takes to create high-tech products. So if you are a high-tech person in that company, then you're basically a glorified typist in some sense. It's very unlikely that the kind of people who would be successful in an entertainment company would even understand what programmers do that makes them more than typists. ~ Jessica Livingston
Programmers quotes by Jessica Livingston
The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability. ~ Randall E. Stross
Programmers quotes by Randall E. Stross
Our society expects that everyone should learn to write, even though very few become professional writers. Similarly, I think that everyone should learn how to program, even though very few will become professional programmers. ~ Mitchel Resnick
Programmers quotes by Mitchel Resnick
[On identifying talented programmers] It's just enthusiasm. You ask them what's the most interesting program they worked on. And then you get them to describe it and its algorithms and what's going on. If they can't withstand my questioning on their program, then they're not good. I'm asking them to describe something they've done that they've spent blood on. I've never met anybody who really did spend blood on something who wasn't eager to describe what they've done and how they did it and why. I let them pick the subject. I don't pick the subject, so I'm the amateur and they're the professional in this subject. If they can't stand an amateur asking them questions about their profession, then they don't belong. - Ken Thompson ~ Peter Seibel
Programmers quotes by Peter Seibel
We must not blame programmers for their bugs. They belong to them only until the code is merged to the repository. After that, all bugs are ours! ~ Yegor Bugayenko
Programmers quotes by Yegor Bugayenko
My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities. ~ Bjarne Stroustrup
Programmers quotes by Bjarne Stroustrup
The best designers and the best programmers aren't the ones with the best skills, or the nimblest fingers, or the ones who can rock and roll with Photoshop or their environment of choice, they are the ones that can determine what just doesn't matter. That's where the real gains are made. ~ Jason Fried
Programmers quotes by Jason Fried
The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management ~ Eric S. Raymond
Programmers quotes by Eric S. Raymond
Jobs was a strong-willed, elitist artist who didn't want his creations mutated inauspiciously by unworthy programmers. To him it would be as if someone off the street added some brush strokes to a Picasso painting or changed the lyrics to a Dylan song. ~ Walter Isaacson
Programmers quotes by Walter Isaacson
The conclusion is simple: if a 200-man project has 25 managers who are the most competent and experienced programmers,
fire the 175 troops and put the managers back to programming. ~ Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Programmers quotes by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them. Now, however, time-sharing had made exchanging software trivial: you just stored one copy in the public repository and therby effectively gave it to the world. Immediately people began to document their programs and to think of them as being usable by others. They started to build on each other's work. ~ Robert Fano
Programmers quotes by Robert Fano
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. ~ Alan Perlis
Programmers quotes by Alan Perlis
Rich Hickey once said programmers know the benefits of everything and the tradeoffs of nothing...an approach that can lead a project down a path of frustra‐ ted developers and unhappy customers. But as an architect you must consider the tradeoffs of every new library, language, pattern, or approach and quickly make decisions often with incomplete information. ~ Nathaniel Schutta
Programmers quotes by Nathaniel Schutta
Man is programmed to find the programmer. ~ Kedar Joshi
Programmers quotes by Kedar Joshi
I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. ~ Elizabeth Warren
Programmers quotes by Elizabeth Warren
If your whole team consists of novice programmers, your expertise will give you considerable power; but if the other team members are also experts, they will attach less importance to your technical expertise. In that case, they'll pay more attention to organizational power, like the power to acquire extra hardware, to extend the schedule, or to capture a more interesting assignment. ~ Gerald M. Weinberg
Programmers quotes by Gerald M. Weinberg
If we bred better programmers we'd clearly breed better bugs. ~ Anonymous
Programmers quotes by Anonymous
If we want developed societies with women doctors, political leaders, teachers, bus drivers, and computer programmers, we will need qualified people to give loving care to their children. And there is no reason why every society should not enjoy such loving paid child care. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Programmers quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich
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