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Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time -- Eric S. Raymond
I am a programmer. -- Ken Thompson
Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul. -- John Carmack
I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer. -- Robert Patterson
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. -- Larry Wall
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. -- Alan Perlis
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. -- Alan Perlis
You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. -- Seymour Cray
The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless. -- Bram Cohen
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
The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology. -- Eric Allman
Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse. -- Martha Stewart
I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code. -- Brian Behlendorf
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
It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers. -- Bill Budge
From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer. -- Yukihiro Matsumoto
Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later. -- John Carmack
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
God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause. -- Orson Scott Card
If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's illegal to reverse engineer the source code of commercial software to find out how it works. -- Clive Thompson
Finding a programmer to work with if you don't already know one will be a challenge. Merely judging if a programmer is exceptional vs. competent will be very hard if you are not one yourself. When you do find someone, work together informally for a while to test your compatibility. -- Jessica Livingston
The government does things like insisting that all encryption programs should have a back door. But surely no one is stupid enough to think the terrorists are going to use encryption systems with a back door. The terrorists will simply hire a programmer to come up with a secure encryption scheme. -- Kevin Mitnick
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
The truth is I'm not actually an expert programmer! I really don't consider myself to be an expert at anything. For me, it's more about having a well-rounded and broad horizon. I think that's where a lot of the more interesting things come from - mashing up completely disparate aspects of life to create something new and original. -- Aaron Koblin
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. So after that, I switched to Communications. -- J. Cole
Man is programmed to find the programmer. -- Kedar Joshi
Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n. -- Joel Spolsky
One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year. -- David Parnas
To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API. -- Charles Petzold
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The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer. -- Larry Wall
... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer. -- Larry Wall
The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer. -- Ellen Ullman
The cowboy movies is not our go-to programmer anymore, here's a horror film. -- Robert Englund
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. -- Kent Beck
I was hired as a computer programmer for a national laboratory at age 15. -- Andy Weir
I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together. -- Dennis Crowley
A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. -- Doug Linder
An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer. -- Agu Jaachynma N.E.
I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs. -- Fred Brooks
Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer. -- Marvin Minsky
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request. -- Pharrell Williams
I'm not an entrepreneur. I'm not a CEO. I'm a nerdy computer programmer who likes to have opinions on Twitter. -- Markus Persson
At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person's job. -- Michael Crichton
What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? -- James Alan Gardner
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. -- Larry Wall
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. -- Edsger Dijkstra
The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless -- Bram Cohen
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. -- Edsger Dijkstra
As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow. -- Douglas McIlroy
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. -- Eric S. Raymond
The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer. -- Edsger Dijkstra
By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality. -- Donald Knuth
I don't like the feeling, but I've got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer. -- Kent Beck
Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate the simplicity.. -- Dennis Ritchie
My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture. -- Gene Luen Yang
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
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
I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that. -- Jon Foreman
It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive. -- Steve McConnell
It would've been amazing [to work as programmer]. You're good at numbers, you're good with people, you like to wear shorts in the summertime. -- Jimmy Fallon
...when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor. -- Fred Brooks
The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used. -- Fernando J. Corbato
Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free. -- Richard Stallman
I think once the artistic world of the type designer merged with the scientific world of the computer programmer, you began to see this crossover. -- Michael Bierut
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures. -- Fred Brooks
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
If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing. -- Bill Gates
Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts. -- Douglas Crockford
Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer (programmer or engineer). -- Larry Tesler
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs. -- Joseph Weizenbaum
I'm not a computer person at all. I only know how to turn them on. I'm not a programmer. I couldn't program my way out of a paper bag. -- Rick Smolan
I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the primary purpose of Ruby language. -- Yukihiro Matsumoto
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
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
It is a real service to humanity and the world to be a good programmer, particularly if you design great products. You make is easier for everybody, everybody has less headaches. -- Frederick Lenz
It is a real service to humanity and the world to be a good programmer, particularly if you design great products. You make is easier for everybody, everybody has less headaches. -- Frederick Lenz
The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules. -- Fernando J. Corbato
We could talk, act, and dress funny. We were excused for socially inappropriate behavior: 'Oh, he's a programmer'. It was all because we knew this technology stuff that other people found completely mystifying. -- Kent Beck
Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer. -- Jon Postel
The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large. -- Donald Knuth
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

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