Quotes about Programmers

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

Seymoure Cray

It's not the viruses that you attack, it's the infection method. The problem is that you have 10,000 programmers in Redmond designing for functionality and not security.

Roger Thompson

[Microsoft argues that customers pay more for OSes now because they get more: Win 9x is more feature-rich than Win 3.x.] Windows 95 was a quantum leap in terms of features, ... The cost of the plastic and the keyboard has dropped, but the cost of hiring programmers has gone up.

Mark Murray

In the next 10 years, the U.S. will need 1.3 million programmers, systems analysts, and computer science engineers. These are jobs that pay 64 percent above the national average. That's not a bad challenge to answer.

Kelly Carnes

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of Fortran.

Alan Perlis

With WWF, Microsoft will let programmers isolate process logic and business rules as they create composite applications.

Scott Woodgate

Ours is really geared toward programmers where the earlier editions were not necessarily.

Matt Swanson

Some teams assemble machines built by corporations but our kids do their own. That means we go up against programmers from big companies but this way they get more out of it.

Chuck Gosdzinski

People have noticed a security breach and know the correct URL to tell the server. The fault seems to lie in the Microsoft programmers that wrote the code for Hotmail.

Adam Bruce

Let's face it — programmers want to program, they don't want to do their laundry. We make it easy for them to do both.

Eric Schmidt