Quotes About Coding

We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood.

I'm this real creative guy who was really good at design and coding stuff, but wasn't that kind of manager. I spent too much time in self-doubt and limiting my impact because I was trying to be somebody I wasn't.

When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, 'Convert this to Android format.'

I'm not sure I'd be as successful as I am as a woman in a profession other than in technology. Because it tends to be a bit neutral. If you have the tools, if you can code, it's a lot more sort of merit and recognizes talent.

What is truly revolutionary about molecular biology in the post-Watson-Crick era is that it has become digital...the machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like.' -Richard Dawkins

The words available in a programming language for expressing your programming thoughts certainly determine how you express your thoughts and might even determine what thoughts you can express.

Programmers who program into a language first decide what thoughts they want to express, and then they determine how to express those thoughts using the tools provided by their specific language.

Be sure that the names you choose favor read-time convenience over write-time convenience.

Rush had been Halliday's favorite band, from his teens onward. He'd once revealed in an interview that he'd coded every single one of his videogames (including the OASIS) while listening exclusively to Rush albums. He often referred to Rush's three members—Neil Peart, Alex Lifeson, and Geddy Lee—as "the Holy Trinity" or "the Gods of the North.

There are certain jobs where you can just as easily, in some cases more effectively, work remotely. If you take an engineer, for example, when they get into the mode of coding, being on their own where they're not distracted or interrupted is very helpful.

The whole idea of how people will learn computer science, I believe will be through game development.

Code writers, they are my idols.

A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

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.

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.

The harsh reality is that if you are middle-aged, write computer code for a living, and earn a six-figure salary, you're headed for the unemployment lines. Your market value declines as you age, and it becomes harder and harder to get a job.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.

I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.

We think coding should be required in every school because it's as important as any kind of second language.

I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side.