Programmers Quotes - Page 11

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

  Kent Beck

  Greatness, Professionalism, Habit

  Jay Fields, Shane Harvie, Martin Fowler, Kent Beck (2009). “Refactoring: Ruby Edition”, p.74, Pearson Education

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• The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Army, Degrees, Details

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• An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Organization, Able, Treats

  "The C++ Programming Language". Book by Bjarne Stroustrup, October 1985.

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• In a weird way, riffing on genres is kind of a reaction to formula. When you watch so much of the programmers and the films that you just think you've seen before, it's kind of going back to the well in terms of trying to conjure up the spirit of what made you excited about films in the first place.

  Edgar Wright

  Thinking, Genre Is, Trying

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

  Donald Knuth

  Reality, Understanding, Use

  Donald E. Knuth (1997). “The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms”, p.12, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• 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

  Technology, People, Lines

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• Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

  Douglas Crockford

  Emotional, People, Normal

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• Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

  Alan Perlis

  Analysis, Logic, Cases

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• Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average programmer, you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Fall, Views, Average

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.163, Springer Science & Business Media

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• To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents.

  Edwin Newman

  Teacher, Children, Government

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• I don't like the feeling, but I've got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer.

  Kent Beck

  Feelings, Littles, Responsible

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• When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is nothing more precise than code, there is also nothing more permanent or resistant to change. So the situation frequently crops up where nomenclature confusion drives programmers to begin coding prematurely, and that code becomes the de facto design, regardless of its appropriateness or correctness.

  Amari Cooper

  Learning, Confusion, Design

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• The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

  Kent Beck

  Stories, Metaphor, Customers

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• Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them.

  Steve Yegge

  Use, Tools, Program

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

  David Parnas

  Groups, Computer, Standards

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• Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.

  Marco Arment

  Office, Brain, World

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• It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

  Bill Budge

  Thinking, People, Important

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• Of course, it's hard to support full-time programmers, so we do get funds from a set of companies that are interested in the health of the Mozilla project and so are willing to support the people working for the Foundation as well.

  Mitchell Baker

  People, Support, Mozilla

  "Mozilla Foundation Chief Mitchell Baker Replies". Interview with Robin "Roblimo" Miller, interviews.slashdot.org. March 23, 2005.

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• An initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.

  Larry Wall

  Strong, Feelings, Computer

  Usenet article, 1992.

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

  Larry Wall

  Ada, Computer, Former

  "Regarding 10_000_000". Usenet article, 1991.

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• It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.

  Erik Naggum

  Tools, Done, Rewards

  "Can lisp do what perl does easily?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. March 28, 2000.

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• I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Marketing, Clerks, Dorms

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• By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.

  Oren Peli

  Paranormal, Software, Trade

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• Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs, is also complicated, the language itself becomes part of the problem rather than part of its solution.

  Tony Hoare

  Design, Tools, Language

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• I've always felt that people's ears are wider than programmers are ever wiling to give them credit for. It's always been very important to me that you not have to turn me off because your kids are in the back seat.

  Donnie Simpson

  Kids, People, Giving

  "Special guest Donnie Simpson, more on Pop Culture With Paul Farhi". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 2, 2010.

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