Quotes About Computer Programmers

#1. This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists ... by spending time alone practicing what they love.

Meg Cabot

#2. In fact, there are autism clusters, you know, around some of the big tech centers. You take two socially awkward computer programmers and put them together, that can kind of concentrate the autistic genes.

Temple Grandin

#3. 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

John Naughton

#4. Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

Jessica Livingston

#5. The best computer programmers never write a new program when they can use an old one for a new job.

Gerald M. Weinberg

#6. The most successful computer programmers aren't the ones who approach programming as a task they have to carry out in order to get their paychecks. They're the ones for whom programming is a joyful game.

Anonymous

#7. A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things.

Bill Bryson

#8. Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

James Gleick

#9. If we want developed societies with women doctors, political leaders, teachers, bus drivers, and computer programmers, we will need qualified people to give loving care to their children. And there is no reason why every society should not enjoy such loving paid child care.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#10. The best computer programmers are much better than novices at remembering the overall structure of programs because they understand better what they're intended to do and how.

Geoff Colvin

#11. There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.

Dave Parnas

#12. 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.

Walter Mosley

#13. Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.

Jamais Cascio

#14. 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.

Will.i.am

#15. How many computer programmers does it take to change a light bulb? Are you kidding? That's a hardware problem!

Various

#16. When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.

Howard Rheingold

#17. One can never be as naked, as exposed, in the flesh as one becomes in the mind

Martin Walser

#18. Stories, A Portal to Anywhere but Here.

Joshua Caleb

#19. Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. ... Ask him why he thinks he should be able to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc., just because he wants speed.

Erik Naggum

#20. All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.

Seth Godin

#21. The company I invested in is probably a leader in that area. They're a company called Second Spectrum, which happens to be based in LA but was started by two USC computer-science professors. It's filled with guys who love sports, who played sports, but really look like programmers.

Steve Ballmer

#22. Be humble in this life ...

Stephen I Of Hungary

#23. Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.

Bertrand Meyer

#24. For Kenya: we have a chance to start again each time we meet one another. The ghosts do not need to define the future.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

#25. What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness.

Lisa M. Klein

#26. People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.

Wendell Berry

#27. People always try to be perfect. That's why they don't start anything. Perfection is the lowest standard in the world. Because if you're trying to be perfect, you know you can't be. So what you really have is a standard you can never achieve. You want to be outstanding, not perfect.

Tony Robbins

#28. State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.

Ludwig Von Mises

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

Raymond Simard

#30. It doesn't matter how rich or important you are. Everyone's in the same boat. And medical resources and costs are kept under control."
"What about brains?" Ethan asks. "What are they worth?"
"Brains are pretty much illegal.

Mary E. Pearson

#31. God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.

Jerry Bridges

#32. What is the difference between a dream and its memory?

Sukanya Venkatraghavan

#33. Tests are stories we tell the next generation of programmers on a project.

Roy Osherove

#34. Computers: he always fixed on computers when his mind wandered into the future
instruments he revered and hated. The computer world was a place where snotty kids knew everything and nothing ... The computer was part of a future cloudy, unpredictable and menacing.

Howard Fast

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

Martin Fowler

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

Karl Lehenbauer

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

Larry Wall

#38. In an interstellar burst I am back to save the universe In a fast German car I'm amazed that I survived An airbag saved my life

Thom Yorke

#39. A girl would be lucky to have you, but not like this, Carmine. Not the way you treat people now. You're wasting your time, and it's not worth it. You need to find something that is. So, maybe your life isn't boring, but it has to be unfulfilling.

J.M. Darhower

#40. I just want to make films that have enough of a budget to pull off high-level imagery but also have a budget that is low enough that I can do what I want.

Neill Blomkamp

#41. I may be a loser, but hey, at least I'm a loser who can do magic, right?

Rachel Hawkins