Aaron Koblin
Aaron Koblin

The truth is I'm not actually an expert programmer! I really don't consider myself to be an expert at anything. For me, it's more about having a well-rounded and broad horizon. I think that's where a lot of the more interesting things come from - mashing up completely disparate aspects of life to create something new and original.

Alan Perlis
Alan Perlis

LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.

Alan Perlis
Alan Perlis

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

Alan Perlis
Alan Perlis

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

Alexandra Elbakyan
Alexandra Elbakyan

I am a freelance programmer so I am flexible about my working hours and have quite a lot of free time.

Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz

When Usenet was eclipsed by websites in the late 1990s, people from that world - many of them programmers - wanted to bring the freewheeling, amazing discussions of Usenet to the web. And thus, RSS was born.

Asa Hutchinson
Asa Hutchinson

Whether you're looking at manufacturing and the use of robotics or the knowledge industries, they need computer programmers.

Caterina Fake
Caterina Fake

When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a writer and an artist when I grew up. So in college, I was an English major, and then I became a fine artist. But when I arrived in San Francisco in 1995, I figured I could leverage my artistic skills by becoming a Web designer and programmer.

Charles Best
Charles Best

I created DonorsChoose by putting pencil to paper - literally - and sketching out each screen of the web site and how it would work. Then I paid a programmer from Poland $1,500 to turn my sketches and common-sense rules into a functioning website.

Charley Pride
Charley Pride

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.