The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Programmers can be lazy.
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.
In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.
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.
The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.
Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.
Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.
I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time.
Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.