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
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John Carmack 
Yukihiro Matsumoto 
Orson Scott Card 
Shawn Fanning 
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Ken Thompson 
Larry Wall All Programmer Quotes
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall 
60% 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
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
Seymoure Cray
52% of people like this quote
From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
50% of people like this quote
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
50% of people like this quote
I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.
Robert Patterson
49% of people like this quote