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I am a programmer.

quote by Ken Thompson
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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.

quote by John Carmack
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If the programmer can simulate a construct faster than the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly.

quote by Guy L. Steele Jr.
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We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, or any training, can do a fine job of programming. Programmers know this, but then why is it that they think that anyone picked off the street can do documentation? One has only to spend an hour looking at papers written by graduate students to realize the extent to which the ability to communicate is not universally held. And so, when we speak about computer program documentation, we are not speaking about the psychology of computer programming at all - except insofar as programmers have the illusion that anyone can do a good job of documentation, provided he is not smart enough to be a programmer.

Gerald Weinberg in The Psychology of Computer Programming
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The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

quote by Joseph Weizenbaum
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I Need A Beat

If its a malibu beat, subject of discussion
Malibu beat, subject of discuss-cussion
Youre motivated-vated, to aid a percussion-cussion
Theres no glo-glory, for this story-story
It-it rock-rock in any territory-tory
I syncopate it and design it well-well
Beat elevates-vates, the scratch excels-cels
All techniques are a combination
Of skills that I have, thought narration
Last year my melody, but still complete
Providing musical energy for the street
Lyrics are smooth for maximum effect
Jump track patt-erns on cass-ette
Time-time snare had bass and cymbal
Like that of a cat on the mic Im nimble
Ba-sic patterns, grouped and changed
Se-quence fre-quent, seek and gain...
Break... break... for narration
Break two... break two...
Im in the center of a - Im in the center of a
Musical skinner; some say the skins is a blow of torture
They hear me, they fear me, they hear me, they fear me
Im improvin the conditions of the rap industry
The beat will expand, to land on foreign lands
Germany, italy, france and japan, itll
Give you a lift, no need to sniff
No butts no hows no whys or ifs
Its you I defeated, theyll say you retreated
Pick up your favorite magazine and read it
Wrapped by a power, a musical shower-shower
A picture-picture of me-of me on the eiffel-eiffel tower-tower
I need a beat-beat...
Doing-doing dirty, Im your-your thought
Youre bein-bein taken-taken, the musical boom
Im in full trating your eardrums
Increasing the rate of vibration
I wanna rock ya-rock ya, thats all you need to know-know
I need a beat, is the title of the show-show
Providing-providing pleasure on the musical measures
All-all arranged, to alleviate pressure
Im up on your list, your party thera-therapist
Beat programmer and lyri-lyricist
Ladies love cool james, studio user
A million or more screamin people abuser
I predict, this jam will hit
The highest plateau in the world of music
Paparazzi, wealth and fame
The total propulsion, of my name
I need a beat..
Computer wise, and the engineers eyes

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song performed by LL Cool J
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Man is programmed to find the programmer.

quote by Kedar Joshi
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Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

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

quote by Seymoure Cray
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You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

quote by Alan Perlis
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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?

quote by Shawn Fanning
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Right now someone who works for Facebook is getting tens of thousands of error messages and frantically trying to find the problem before the whole charade collapses. There's a team at a Google office that hasn't slept in three days. Somewhere there's a database programmer surrounded by empty Mountain Dew bottles whose husband thinks she's dead. And if these people stop, the world burns. Most people don't even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn't make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants.

quote by Peter Welch (27 April 2014)
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

quote by Edsger Dijkstra
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The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

quote by Larry Wall
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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.

quote by Orson Scott Card
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It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

quote by Bill Budge
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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.

quote by Eric Allman
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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.

quote by Yukihiro Matsumoto
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The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.

quote by Bram Cohen
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And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.

quote by Brian Behlendorf
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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.

quote by John Carmack
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