Quotes About Programmer

I've never been one of those programmers that works effectively on short amounts of sleep. I've always needed eight hours.

Caffeine Allocation Error: COFFEE.SYS missing, Programmer halted.

Writing was a way to get away from my life as a programmer, so I wanted to write about other things, but of course nobody wanted to publish another story about a family, unless it was extraordinary. When I began writing about my life as a programmer, however, people were interested.

The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities that our particular place in history presents us with. For a young would-be lawyer, being born in the early 1930s was a magic time, just as being born in 1955 was for a software programmer, or being born in 1835 was for an entrepreneur.

An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

As a programmer, you are part listener, part advisor, part interpreter, and part dictator.

If you have an analytical bent like I do, going back to my days as a programmer, you like to ask questions.

I have the ability to get code done, but I'm impatient, and it's scrappy as a result. Maybe that helped me with 'Minecraft,' as it came quickly. But, well, at some point, I'd like to actually become a good programmer.

I am a freelance programmer so I am flexible about my working hours and have quite a lot of free time.

I didn't realize how good I was with technology until I met my parents... my dad told me "You're good; you should be a computer programmer." I said, "You're bad... you should be a caveman."

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless

A very good senior programmer (who might get paid $200,000) gets paid about the same as a great programmer, who delivers $5 million worth of value for the same price. That's enough of a difference to build an entire company's profit around. Do it with ten programmers and you're rich.

A good quant must be a mixture, too—part trader, part salesperson, part programmer, and part mathematician.

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

Good engineering estimates are possible only if you have two things: good information and good engineers. If the specs are crap, and a programmer is asked to conjure up a number based on an incomprehensible whiteboard scribbling, everyone should know exactly what they're getting: a fuzzy scribble of an estimate.

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas (Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999).

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible." Personal responsibility, or proactivity, is fundamental to the first creation. Returning to the computer metaphor, Habit 1 says, "You are the programmer." Habit 2, then, says, "Write the program.

Personal responsibility, or proactivity, is fundamental to the first creation. Returning to the computer metaphor, Habit 1 says, "You are the programmer." Habit 2, then, says, "Write the program." Until you accept the idea that you are responsible, that you are the programmer, you won't really invest in writing the program.

inheritance is a powerful tool for reducing complexity because a programmer can focus on the generic attributes of an object without worrying about the details. If a programmer must be constantly thinking about semantic differences in subclass implementations, then inheritance is increasing complexity rather than reducing it.

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.

Herley would like to see a smart computer programmer pretend to be dumb in order to outwit a smart scammer who is also pretending to be dumb in order to find a victim who is, if not dumb, then extremely gullible.