#grammer

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity. ↗

— John Romero

#creative #creativity #extremely #might #profession

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#library #programmers #reinvent #reinvent the wheel #saves

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

#getting #intellectual #intellectual property #law #much

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code. ↗

— Brian Behlendorf

#actually #appropriate #because #best #code

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you. ↗

— Richard Hatch

#buying #colors #designs #dollars #feel

If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer? ↗

— Shawn Fanning

#along #does #fame #goes #happen

In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#bunch #businesses #everybody #fair #guys

I am a programmer. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#i #i am #programmer

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

#because #clever #competent #extremely #graphics

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#aptitude #basic #between #beyond #difference