Good Programmer Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.

Kent Beck

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. There is no one unique method to learn programming, but there are many best ways to deal with it. The one word that is frequently heard whenever it is asked about the best way to learn and be a good programmer is: 'Practice.

Santosh Avvannavar

#6. 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

#7. A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.

Doug Linder

#8. A good quant must be a mixture, too - part trader, part salesperson, part programmer, and part mathematician.

Emanuel Derman

#9. It takes a long time to fully become who you are.

Bjork

#10. 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

#11. Writing when you are already very old means you have lived through the endings of so many things, you are more aware of the shape life takes. You begin to know Death, you've been close to it. But youth can barely imagine the end of this journey.

Gore Vidal

#12. You can accomplish amazing things with this if you have a passion and you work hard - I just think it's a cop out to say 'I wasn't born with this, so it's OK if I fail'. You can make up the difference with hard work and devotion.

Buck Brannaman

#13. To be psychologically healthy, we have to believe that what we do has some effect on what happens to us. Even if the perception of control is delusional, it usually leads to more productive action than believing that what we do makes no difference.

Albert J. Bernstein

#14. Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

John Carmack

#15. When I worked as a programmer, that meant eight straight hours of programming without interruption. That was a good day. In contrast, if I was interrupted with questions, process, or - heaven forbid - meetings, I felt bad.

Eric Ries

#16. 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

#17. Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

#18. I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.

Stephen Rea

#19. 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

#20. you're not dead-you're dormant.

Cheryl Nielsen

#21. Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn't know my name and barely knew my face.
- Leo

Sherry Thomas

#22. We are all wont to make mistakes, but if we learn from each trick, each error, and refuse to allow it to happen again, then the experience is not a loss, but a lifelong gain. Our pride may sting for the moment, but our future will be the better for it.

Karen Hawkins

#23. The soul of the world is in the whole world, and is everywhere so adapted to matter that, at each place, it produces the proper subject and causes the proper actions.

Giordano Bruno

#24. Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.

Cher

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.

Arthur Keith

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. I do admire efficiency,' said Marthe. 'But how tedious it can be in excess.

Dorothy Dunnett

#31. Physics is the most basic part of science and, of course, math. It gives you insight into everything - a foundation, I should say, to understand nature and the universe.

Fred Kavli