Real Programmers Quotes

#1. I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say Yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that. I'll just restart Apache every 10 requests.

Rasmus Lerdorf

#2. 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.

Tom Van Vleck

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

Tom Van Vleck

#4. Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Larry Wall

#5. In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

Eric S. Raymond

#6. Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

Tom Van Vleck

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

Larry Wall

#8. The best designers and the best programmers aren't the ones with the best skills, or the nimblest fingers, or the ones who can rock and roll with Photoshop or their environment of choice, they are the ones that can determine what just doesn't matter. That's where the real gains are made.

Jason Fried

#9. We need to do more than just what is right. We need to join together and right what is wrong.

Leonard Peltier

#10. Lust likes to rush, while love hates to wait.

Anthony Liccione

#11. My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy.

Tim Burton

#12. The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

Seneca The Younger

#13. The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.

James MacGregor Burns

#14. 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