Cool Code, Bro Quotes

“The power these kids wield right now as programmers is individually unprecedented, perhaps even in human history, and they’re getting shoved into the workforce before they’ve had the opportunity to develop into thoughtful, whole citizens,”
― Nick Parish, Cool Code, Bro: Brogrammers, Geek Anxiety and the New Tech Elite

“Just as dogs often come to resemble their owners, it seems that programming languages end up reflecting the temperaments and personalities of their creators in some subtle ways,”
― Nick Parish, Cool Code, Bro: Brogrammers, Geek Anxiety and the New Tech Elite

“Their products ultimately reflected their real-life behavior. Instead of making a technology of understanding, we seemed sometimes to be making a technology of the opposite: pure, dehumanizing objectification.”
― Nick Parish, Cool Code, Bro: Brogrammers, Geek Anxiety and the New Tech Elite

“The programmer community is thick with stereotypes: greybeards (old guys with vast knowledge of arcane programming languages); script kiddies (unskilled hackers causing chaos with off-the-shelf programs) and ninjas, rockstars and cowboys, all three a way of describing mercenary, high-skill individuals brought in to clean up messes and untie the hairiest programming knots, though not necessarily play well with others.”
― Nick Parish, Cool Code, Bro: Brogrammers, Geek Anxiety and the New Tech Elite