Programmers Quotes

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.

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.

Man is programmed to find the programmer.

I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the social sciences and humanities.

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.

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.

Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult.

Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

It would be just like programmers to shorten 'the year 2000 problem' to 'Y2K'- exactly the kind of thinking that created this situation in the first place.

Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless as herding cats

Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them.

Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code.

GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.

I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that they see the world and they structure the world.

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.

Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.

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.

Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.

Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.

The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can’t always tell the difference.

Jolt is for Windows programmers. It's typical IBM PC: it goes in brown and comes out yellow. Mountain Dew is for Macintosh programmers: it goes in yellow and comes out yellow. It's WYSIWYP.

Once we were Programmers. Maybe our last best hope is a movie.

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time

Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.

Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

Labor-rich manufacturing doesn't exist anymore. Manufacturing jobs are white-collar, Silicon Valley programmers or highly-skilled technicians. They are not going to employ lots of people.

Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it.