Programmers Quotes - Page 6

• I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Thinking, Littles

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.

  Rick Cook

  Ideas, Iron, Wizardry

  "The Wizardry Consulted". Book by Rick Cook, 1995.

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• It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.

  Steve McConnell

  Waiting, Firsts, Computer

  Steve McConnell (1997). “Software Project Survival Guide”, p.103, Microsoft Press

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• Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication.

  Boris Beizer

  Debugging, Testing, Prove

  Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

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• The cowboy movies is not our go-to programmer anymore, here's a horror film.

  Robert Englund

  Cowboy, Horror, Film

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Education, Teacher, Duty

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• I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.

  Dennis Crowley

  Together, Execution, Enough

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• Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.

  David Platt

  Senior, Cat, Computer

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• Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code.

  Steve Lohr

  Artist, Oil, Design

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• Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Regeneration

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• The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Writing, Independent, Numbers

  "Implementing and Developing Cloud Computing Applications". Book by David E. Y. Sarna, 2010.

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• ... programming requires more concentration than other activities. It's the reason programmers get upset about 'quick interruptions' - such interruptions are tantamount to asking a juggler to keep three balls in the air and hold your groceries at the same time.

  Steve McConnell

  Air, Upset, Three

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• 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

  Powerful, Real, Learning

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• The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute authority to arrange a stage or field of battle and to command such unswervingly dutiful actors or troops.

  Joseph Weizenbaum

  Powerful, Battle, Directors

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• 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

  Intellectual, Three, Lines

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• One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it!

  John Carmack

  People, Suffering, Lessons

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• The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

  Gabe Newell

  Wizards, Tomorrow

  YouTube Chanel "Code.org" / "What Most Schools Don't Teach", www.youtube.com. February 26, 2013.

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• Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.

  Jessica Livingston

  Quality, Havens

  Jessica Livingston (2008). “Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days”, p.326, Apress

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• One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year.

  David Parnas

  Jobs, Years, Two

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• The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Syntax, Use, Levels

  "A Managerial View of the Multics System Development". Talk at the Conference on Research Directions in Software Technology, Providence, Rhode Island, www.multicians.org. October 1977.

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• Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time

  Eric S. Raymond

  Machines, Preference, Expensive

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.22, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

  Linus Torvalds

  Trust, Data, Differences

  Message to Git mailing list, lwn.net. June 27, 2006.

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• 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

  People, Tools, Masters

  Twitter post from Nov 08, 2013

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• Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actual completion. An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices - wait or eat it raw. Software customers have had the same choices.

  Fred Brooks

  Two, Waiting, Choices

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• 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

  Thinking, Errors, Etc

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