Top Programmer Quotes
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
I am a programmer.
Ken Thompson
Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.
John Carmack
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
Alan Perlis
The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.
Eric Allman
All Programmer Quotes
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall 
59% of people like this quote
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
Alan Perlis 
57% of people like this quote
The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.
Eric Allman 
55% of people like this quote
Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.
Jon Postel 
53% of people like this quote
It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.
Bill Budge 
53% of people like this quote
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
Seymoure Cray 
51% of people like this quote

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