Programmers Quotes
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Programmers can be lazy.
Larry Wall -
The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.
Ellen Ullman
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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 -
From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed, ah, people. And so we're always on... on the look for ah, that kind of person.
Bill Gates -
Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.
Jessica Livingston -
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.
Bill Gates -
If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?
Shawn Fanning -
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
Seymour Cray
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A data structure is just a stupid programming language.
Bill Gosper -
Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult.
Bob Barton -
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 -
Of course, it's hard to support full-time programmers, so we do get funds from a set of companies that are interested in the health of the Mozilla project and so are willing to support the people working for the Foundation as well.
Mitchell Baker -
My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.
Niklaus Wirth -
Even for the very best programmers ah, sometimes you'll see someone else's program or somebody will come along and they'll show you what can be done in a simpler way.
Bill Gates
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I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills, and thus do not say they know C++ when they are smart enough to realize that that would be a lie for all but perhaps 5 people on this planet.
Erik Naggum -
The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built.
Niklaus Wirth