Programmer Quotes

“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

“I'm a programmer. I like programming. And the best way I've found to have a positive impact on code is to write it.”
― Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture

“If, at first, you do not succeed, call it version 1.0.”
― Khayri R.R. Woulfe

“Think twice, code once.”
― Waseem Latif

“An algorithm is like a recipe.”
― Muhammad Waseem

“Every programmer is an author.”
― Sercan Leylek

“Programming is not easy like Sunday morning, it is silent poetry.”
― Waseem Latif

“First solve the problem. Then, write the code.”
― Waseem Latif

“Programming is usually taught by examples.”
― Waseem Latif

“You darling is my semicolon.”
― Waseem Latif

“C gives the programmer what the programmer wants; few restrictions, few complaints... C++ maintains the original spirit of C, that the programmer not the language is in charge.”
― Herbert Schildt, C++: The Complete Reference

“Mike glanced at the two computer towers lying half-autopsied on her kitchen table. One had a bag of chips in it, the top held shut with a binder clip. A stack of motherboards rested on the chair in Mylar bags.

“Maid’s been on vacation, I see,” said Mike.

“Yeah. She ran off with the guy who writes your jokes.”

“Ouch.”

“There’s a postcard from them here somewhere. Want me to look for that instead?”

“No, no. Just the logs will be fine.”
― Peter Clines, The Fold

“Engineering is a profession that can do the job of almost all other professions.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“STOP APPLYING PATCHES.
RECODE YOURSELF NOW.

24 Dec National Mathematics Day”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Even in the mid-1990s geeks were fair game. One afternoon a colleague and I were standing on either side of one of the narrow aisles between the banks of trading desks on the floor when one of the chief traders walked between us, his head momentarily between ours. At that instant he winced, clutched his head with both hands as though in excruciating pain, and exclaimed, “Aarrggh-hhh! The force field! It’s too intense! Let me out of the way!”
― Emanuel Derman, My Life As A Quant: Reflections On Physics And Finance

“project deal is a reason to finish what you've started, be a man please”
― creatorbe

“Developer refracts. Hacker does. Programmer solves.”
― Deh Saaduddin

“The golden age of startups is behind us,
today it's mostly filth, fraud and smut.
Amidst the crowd of trust fund termites,
be the humanovator to humanize the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Innovation that outlives its usefulness,
is no longer innovation but carnivoration.
Innovators not in touch with soil-n-roots,
are predators of the concrete jungle.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee