Programmers Quotes

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.

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.

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

Programmers can be lazy.

C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.

Programmers are expensive. Hardware is cheap.

The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

Man is programmed to find the programmer.

Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

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

Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

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

Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.

Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time