Programmers Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Memories, Real, Moving

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• The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs.

  Harlan Mills

  Errors, Sitting, Way

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• Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

  Linus Torvalds

  Fun, Work, Program

  "First Monday Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates free software developers?". Interview with Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, firstmonday.org. March 2, 1998.

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• The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

  Grady Booch

  Simple, Simplicity, Computer

  "Qt for Symbian". Book by Frank H. P. Fitzek et al., 2010.

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• There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren't that good. The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren't interested in maintaining it.

  Bill Joy

  Couple, Writing, People

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• Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.

  Chris Sacca

  Simplicity, Entrepreneur, Use

  Twitter post from Dec 9, 2014

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• The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspirational, Life, Business

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• Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

  Andy Rooney

  Witty, Work, Technology

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• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Business, Military

  Quoted in Richard Nixon, Six Crises (1962)

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• The best is the enemy of the good.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Military, Learning

  Letter to Duc de Richelieu, 18 June 1744. Although this saying is now associated with Voltaire, he is obviously quoting an Italian proverb here. The French form, which he used later, is Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.

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• Laziness is a programmers main virtue.

  Larry Wall

  Inspiring, Inspire, Laziness

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• The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else.

  Gabe Newell

  Magic, Looks, Wizards

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• UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Simple, Appreciate, Simplicity

  "Unix: A Dialectic". Book by Dennis Ritchie, 1989.

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• To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accomodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.

  Ellen Ullman

  Errors

  "The myth of order" by Ellen Ullman, www.wired.com. April 1, 1999.

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• To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

  Charles Petzold

  Operating Systems, Defined

  Charles Petzold (1998). “Programming Windows”, p.35, Pearson Education

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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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• If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.

  Bill Gates

  Art, Science, Thinking

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

  Steve Lohr

  Artist, Oil, Design

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• Programmers are expensive. Hardware is cheap.

  Karl Lehenbauer

  Hardware, Expensive

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• Once we were Programmers. Maybe our last best hope is a movie.

  Erik Naggum

  Lasts, Hoping For The Best

  "PART TWO: winning industrial-use of lisp". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. June 19, 2002.

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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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• Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.

  David Platt

  Senior, Cat, Computer

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• Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Regeneration

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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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