Programmers Quotes - Page 12

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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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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I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned more fear-preventing tools than any other language, but the solution should have been to create and use a language that does not overload the whole goddamn human brain with irrelevant details.

Erik Naggum

Believe, Should Have, Brain

Re: Checking for Errors Before Run Time (Usenet article), groups.google.com. November 21, 2001.

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The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the event, and delegate that. I had been harboring some suspicions that our big codebases might benefit from the application of some more of the various “modern” C++ design patterns, despite seeing other large game codebases suffer under them. I have since recanted that suspicion.

John Carmack

Games, Design, Suffering

"John Carmack discusses RAGE on iPhone/iPad/iPod" by John Carmack, www.bethblog.com. October 26, 2010.

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C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.

Linus Torvalds

Use, Facts, Language

Message to gmane.comp.version-control.git mailing list, article.gmane.org, September 9, 2007.

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On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists, lawyers, poets, plumbers, and auto mechanics -- women and men from many backgrounds come together to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Dance of Life. The religion they practice is called Witchcraft.

Starhawk

Teacher, Beach, Men

Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!

Ambrose Bierce

Years, Leeches, Reptiles

"The Shadow on The Dial and Other Essays". Book by Ambrose Bierce, www.pub22.net. 1909.

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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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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 think once the artistic world of the type designer merged with the scientific world of the computer programmer, you began to see this crossover.

Michael Bierut

Thinking, World, Computer

Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit

Bjarne Stroustrup

Technology, Arrogant, Benefits

Bjarne Stroustrup (2000). “The C++ Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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And no, I'm not a walking C++ dictionary. I do not keep every technical detail in my head at all times. If I did that, I would be a much poorer programmer. I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Details, Would Be, Needs

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Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.

Douglas Crockford

Language, Programming, Avoiding

Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.1, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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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

Successful, Secret, Honey

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Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.

Tim O'Reilly

Writing, Thinking, People

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