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.

When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accommodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.

Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.

People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.

In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.

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.

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

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.

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

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.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

My duty as a teacher is to train educate future programmers.

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.

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

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