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A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more.
Peter Seebach
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A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Unknown
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Unknown
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A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
Steve Jobs, Apple
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A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.
Unknown
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A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.
Unknown
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A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete.
Unknown
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A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Unknown
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A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place.
IEEE Grid newsmagazine
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Unknown
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