Programmer Quotes

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See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard, too. Linus Torvalds

No delusion is greater than the notion that method of industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or practical life.
Thomas Huxley

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov

There is a difference between eating a varied diet and chowing down on a cup of lard and sugar once a day. Programmers know this instinctively: they balance their daily menu among the four major food groups: caffeine, sugar, grease, and salt.
John Walker

You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don’t see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it.
Carl Sagan

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Bill Gates


Sometimes the best engineers come in bodies that can't talk.
Nolan Bushnell

Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treatment.
Kent Beck

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
Alan Perlis

The only thing more frightening than a programmer with a screwdriver or a hardware engineer with a program is a user with a pair of wire cutters and the root password.
Elizabeth Zwicky

Let's face the obvious: yesterday we were nerds, today we're the cognitive elite. Let's conquer.
Chester G Edwards



The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system. Bill Gates



Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Rich Cook

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein