Programmer Quotes

In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It's really that simple: Program, or be programmed.

Your employer can’t force you to be a good programmer; a lot of times your employer isn’t even in a position to judge whether you’re good. If you want to be great, you’re responsible for making yourself great. It’s a matter of your personal character.

It’s easy to confuse motion with progress; busy-ness with being productive. The most important work in effective programming is thinking, and people tend not to look busy when they’re thinking. If I worked with a programmer who looked busy all the time, I’d assume that he was not a good programmer because he wasn’t using his most valuable tool, his brain.

If you liked it then you shoulda wrapped a <div> 'round it.

Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code.

If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.