Good Programmers Quotes

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

Marissa Mayer

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

Eric S. Raymond

#3. Any fool can write a test that helps them today. Good programmers write tests that help the entire team in the future.

Anonymous

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

David Gelernter

#5. The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.

Alan Kay

#6. Those in authority tend to be annoyed by hackers' general attitude of disobedience. But that disobedience is a byproduct of the qualities that make them good programmers.

Paul Graham

#7. 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

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

Linus Torvalds

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

Martin Fowler

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Linus Torvalds

#13. One of her secret fantasies had been that, as a girl who could code, she would work in the one place where a geeky fat girl could get dates. It had not been entirely untrue. But as someone had pointed out to her in school, although the odds are good, the goods are odd.

Maureen F. McHugh

#14. It won't make you feel any better, he told me, it might even make things worse for a while. But you mustn't let the sadness die inside you. You have to give it some life.

Kevin Brooks

#15. When she was living one of her fantasies she felt like a bird, the freedom of its wings letting her soar without earthly boundaries, enabling her to look on to her vividly imagined scenes from a great height.

Wendy Anne Gibbins-Lekkou

#16. Everyone's goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian are exactly the same. The goals are happiness and security and freedom, and you balance those.

Penn Jillette

#17. Now listen, Lam," he said, "you're a nice egg but you've got yourself poured into the wrong pan.

Erle Stanley Gardner

#18. Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said Tennessee is the first state to reintroduce the electric chair without giving prisoners an option.

Anonymous

#19. It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

#20. I can do a really high-pitched cartoon voice. Everybody always say they like that.

Corbin Bleu

#21. I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.

Henry David Thoreau

#22. He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that other have done for you.

Margaret Atwood

#23. A girl who is willing to give every ounce of herself to someone, who could never betray her lover, who never suspects maliciousness of anyone, and whose sexuality sleeps in her, waiting to be stirred.

Steve Martin

#24. 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

#25. YOU MAY DELAY BUT TIME WILL NOT.

Self

#26. Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.

Mika.

#27. Dada is forever the enemy of that comfortable Sunday Art which is supposed to uplift man by reminding him of agreeable moments," Huelsenbeck wrote, adding "Dada hurts

Jed Rasula

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

Kent Beck

#29. The impulse to lie, to continue to wallow in secrets as he had for years, was only the faintest whisper now, a nagging sense of stepping too far on an uncharted path, easily overridden by need to tell her. If he couldn't tell her, at least he could find some comfort in confidence.

Anthony Ryan

#30. The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.

Randall E. Stross

#31. Nice teeth is a turn on for me. If you open your mouth and it looks like a battle of epic proportions, I don't like it.

Dane Cook

#32. 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