Programmers Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• Programmers are expensive. Hardware is cheap.

  Karl Lehenbauer

  Hardware, Expensive

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• The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Thinking, Errors, Connections

  Bjarne Stroustrup (2013). “The C++ Programming Language”, p.13, Addison-Wesley

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

  Niklaus Wirth

  Education, Teacher, Duty

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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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• 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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• Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Regeneration

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

  Steve Lohr

  Artist, Oil, Design

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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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• Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.

  David Platt

  Senior, Cat, Computer

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

  Joseph Weizenbaum

  Technology, Computer, Responsible

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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'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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• My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even though programmers are always struggling to meet some future or past deadline, methodological abstraction is a wise long term investment.

  Robert W. Floyd

  Wise, Struggle, Past

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• When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.

  Patricia Cornwell

  College, Two, Funeral

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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