#programmers

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

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

— Marissa Mayer

#aptitude #basic #between #beyond #difference

Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#creators #developers #game #job #kind

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

— Alan Perlis

#everything #know #lisp #nothing #programmers

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls. ↗

— Charley Pride

#consultants #country #country music #defined #fans

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#in the beginning #programmers #real #were

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