A Quote by Ken Thompson

I am a programmer.

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Ken Thompson
American - Scientist
Born: February 4, 1943

On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a computer programmer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.

Satoru Iwata

Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication.

Boris Beizer

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

I am a freelance programmer so I am flexible about my working hours and have quite a lot of free time.

Alexandra Elbakyan

The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here that the stereotype of the programmer, sitting in a dim room, growling from behind Coke cans, has its origins. The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-It notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought. The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.

Ellen Ullman

I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.

Robert Patterson

When we take the position that it is not only the programmer's responsibility to produce a correct program but also to demonstrate its correctness in a convincing manner, then the above remarks have a profound influence on the programmer's activity: the object he has to produce must be usefully structured.

Edsger Dijkstra

I think that's the responsibility of the CEO and the CEOs below me: to make sure that we're constantly putting people in places where they have the opportunity to develop into those careers but also having a rewards and recognition system that allows a great programmer to stay as a great programmer.

Bobby Kotick

I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.

Kent Beck

Finding a programmer to work with if you don't already know one will be a challenge. Merely judging if a programmer is exceptional vs. competent will be very hard if you are not one yourself. When you do find someone, work together informally for a while to test your compatibility.

Jessica Livingston

I am a granddaughter of immigrants, put myself through college as a waitress, and I started my career as a computer programmer.

Jacky Rosen

By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.

Oren Peli

By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'

Oren Peli

You become a serious programmer by going through a stage where you are fully aware of the degree to which you know the specification, meaning both the explicit and the tacit specification of your language and of your problem. "Hey, it works most of the time" is the very antithesis of a serious programmer, and certain languages can only support code like that.

Erik Naggum

Writing was a way to get away from my life as a programmer, so I wanted to write about other things, but of course nobody wanted to publish another story about a family, unless it was extraordinary. When I began writing about my life as a programmer, however, people were interested.

Ellen Ullman

Before 'Dilbert,' I tried to become a computer programmer. In the early days of computing, I bought this big, heavy, portable computer for my house. I spent two years nights and weekends trying to write games that I thought I would sell. Turns out I'm not that good a programmer, so that was two years that didn't work out.

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