Programmer Quotes
Thursday Feb 5, 2009
Of all the great programmers I can think of, I know of only one who would voluntarily program in Java. And of all the great programmers I can think of who don’t work for Sun, on Java, I know of zero. — Paul Graham
Their rumpled clothes, their unwashed and unshaven faces, and their uncombed hair all testify that they are oblivious to their bodies and to the world in which they move. These are computer bums, compulsive programmers. — Joseph Weizenbaum
Anyone who has attended a USENIX conference in a fancy hotel can tell you that a sentence like “You’re one of those computer people, aren’t you?” is roughly equivalent to “Look, another amazingly mobile form of slime mold!” in the mouth of a hotel cocktail waitress. — Elizabeth Zwicky
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
— Rich Cook
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals. We cause accidents.
— Nathaniel Borenstein
No delusion is greater than the notion that method of industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or practical life.
— Thomas Huxley
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
— Albert Einstein
Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn’t work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything. — Karl Lehenbauer
