Quotes of Programmer - somelinesforyou

“ So hackers start original, and get good, and scientists start good, and get original. ”

- Paul Graham

“ Old unix hackers don't die, they just turn into zombie processes. ”

- Unknown

“ 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. ”

- John Carmack

“ The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. ”

- Seymoure Cray

“ We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals… ”

- Gerald Weinberg

“ Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away. ”

- Esther Dyson

“ All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. ”

- Unknown

“ In Australia, a computer hacker used a laptop and a two-way radio to hack into a sewage control computer system, releasing more than 250 tons of raw sewage onto the grounds of a luxury resort hotel. ”

- Robert Mueller

“ Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map. ”

- Larry Wall

“ Old programmers never die. They just branch out to a new address. ”

- Anon.

“ 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. ”

- Joseph Weizenbaum

“ The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. ”

- Larry Wall

“ 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. ”

- John Carmack

“ If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. ”

- Harry Weinberger

“ You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of Fortran. ”

- Alan Perlis
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