Quotes About Software Programmers

#1. Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.

Marco Tempest

#2. Angels are not beings with wings; they are feelings that give us wings.

Ina Catrinescu

#3. Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify the design and construction of complex programs.

David Gelernter

#4. Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly great programmers are like great poets or great mathematicians - they can achieve in a few lines what lesser mortals can only approach in three volumes

John Naughton

#5. One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub.

Jamie Zawinski

#6. Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

Paul A. Samuelson

#7. The finest all-around performer we ever had in America was Judy Garland. There was no limit to her talent. She was the quickest, brightest person I ever worked with.

Gene Kelly

#8. We have always learned about life by dramatising our questions.

Celia Brayfield

#9. I mean, freebasing cocaine on the regs will mess up your bank account, cause you to lose your friends, and lead to rehab, but eating comfort food that is terrible for you, will, OK, slowly kill you over many decades, but also like, maybe not?

Phoebe Robinson

#10. At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ's, and nothing necessary for justification except faith alone.

Kevin DeYoung

#11. Imagine a bunch of swashbuckling programmers pillaging and hoarding software gems from rich codebases around the seven software seas. Daring. But dangerous. It's coding with the bad hygiene of a salty seaman.

Anonymous

#12. The conclusion is simple: if a 200-man project has 25 managers who are the most competent and experienced programmers,
fire the 175 troops and put the managers back to programming.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

#13. Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.

Aeschines

#14. I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.

Kent Beck

#15. Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.

Ted Solotaroff

#16. - He can't wear them, Buck Mulligan told his face in the mirror. Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.

James Joyce

#17. The world does not lack the financial resources to feed, educate and clothe its inhabitants. Rather, it lacks leaders committed to addressing the problems of the impoverished.

Oscar Arias

#18. Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.

Orson Scott Card

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

Richard P. Gabriel

#20. Words are what give us power, that without words we are nothing, we do not exist.

Dee Brown

#21. My definition of success is control.

Kenneth Branagh

#22. Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

Niklaus Wirth

#23. That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

Larry Niven