#grammer

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

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#cause #code #environment #ever #exist

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

— Larry Wall

#hubris #impatience #laziness #programmer #three

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. ↗

— Larry Wall

#any #assembly #code #language #programmers

Programmers can be lazy. ↗

— Larry Wall

#programmers

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

— Niklaus Wirth

#educate #future #programmers #teacher #train

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

#because #fellow #game #happy #i

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

— Seymoure Cray

#late #never #programmer #programmers #tell

LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#everything #know #lisp #nothing #programmers

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#lisp #nests #parentheses #pens #programmer