Programmer Quotations

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

The government does things like insisting that all encryption programs should have a back door. But surely no one is stupid enough to think the terrorists are going to use encryption systems with a back door. The terrorists will simply hire a programmer to come up with a secure encryption scheme.

We're pleased that Unreal is the preferred engine choice for leading publishers and developers in the industry. Combined with our growing partnerships with Sony and Microsoft on their next-generation consoles, the Unreal Engine is going to see some truly exciting times ahead. This Lead Engine Programmer position is the opportunity of a lifetime, to play a crucial role in shaping the technology that the games industry has come to recognize as the very best.

I was hired as a computer programmer for a national laboratory at age 15.

There is no more coveted an opportunity for a programmer than to be responsible for a station launch. There is never more optimism, promise, or excitement than when you start fresh with a blank canvas,

Composing music today is a fascinating business. As the technology gets more complex, I feel more like a computer programmer than a musician. But I take the sounds in my head and in the world around me and bend the technology into the world I want to create.

I'm not an entrepreneur. I'm not a CEO. I'm a nerdy computer programmer who likes to have opinions on Twitter.

Instead of programming a keyboard, mouse and screen, a Java programmer can program something that fits in the palm of their hand. Instead of reading mouse clicks, the sensors are reading hand waves and light changes.

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.

I remember on Deus Ex there was one programmer - Alex Durand, a guy who still works for us - he decided he was going to get through the game without ever using a weapon. I would never think to do that. And that's fine.

You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference.

It's a very complex network of genes making products which go into the nucleus and turn on other genes. And, in fact, you find a continuing network of processes going on in a very complex way by which genes are subject to these continual adjustments, as you might say - the computer programmer deciding which genes ultimately will work.