Programmers Quotes

Programmers Quote of the day

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

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

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

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

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

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

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

C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.

The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

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

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. Its logic-based creativity.

Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.

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.

Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.

An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered.

To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit

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

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

Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say.

One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub.

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.

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

If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.

Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.

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

If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

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

The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.'

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.

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.

C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.

Programmers can be lazy.

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

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.

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

Programmers are expensive. Hardware is cheap.

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents.

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