Programmers Quotes

“She had a theory that the fear of getting in trouble was what made her not as good a programmer and that, in fact, it was all linked to testosterone, and that was why there were more guy programmers than women. It was a very hazy theory, and she didn't like it, but she had pretty much convinced herself it was true, although she couldn't bear to think of sharing it with anybody, because it was a lot better to think that there were social reasons why girls didn't usually become code monkeys than to think there were biological reasons.”

“She had a theory that the fear of getting in trouble was what made her not as good a programmer and that, in fact, it was all linked to testosterone, and that was why there were more guy programmers than women. It was a very hazy theory, and she didn't like it, but she had pretty much convinced herself it was true, although she couldn't bear to think of sharing it with anybody, because it was a lot better to think that there were social reasons why girls didn't usually become code monkeys than to think there were biological reasons.”

“Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it.”

“Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange.Some, downright weird.But then again, you’d have to be.To spend hundreds and hundreds of hours sitting in front of a computer screen staring at lines of information is pretty tedious. More like a computer programmer. And no matter how cool the Matrix made looking at code seem, computer programmers are even weirder than authors.”

“Programmers have a saying: "garbage in, garbage out.”

“My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.”

“Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.”

“People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.”

“Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.”

“The distance between the people who made the games and the people playing them wasn't that big. It was the spirit of independence. The programmers were a lot like you.”

“Many programmers would prefer to mock in their client library specs, but doing so could result in the service and client passing all specs with hidden failures.”