#programmers

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. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#because #expect #fun #get #good

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#end #end result #enviable #enviable position #get

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

In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#class #daily #daily lives #expressions #hard

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.' ↗

— Peter Drucker

#clerks #companies #computers #employment #even

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

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

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#beyond #exposure #good #had #hope