Programmer Quotes

If you`re a musician or actor, you know that if you`re successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You`re prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?

Because of the nature of Moore`s law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

Low-level programming is good for the programmer`s soul.

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn`t take it away from you. I`m happy to share what I can, because I`m in it for the love of programming.

I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.

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.

I am a programmer.

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

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I`m really not the world`s best programmer, I think it`s a good thing that I`m not touching the code.

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.

From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.