Quotes About Coding

I'm a designer, but I rely on programmers to bring my ideas to life. By learning to code myself, I think I can make things easier for all of us. Similarly, I want to be able to build things on my own without having to bother a programmer.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution. What's happened is that maybe everybody knows how to use computers, like they know how to read, but they don't know how to write.

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.

The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.

Programming is modelisation of real life.

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

Well, the first thing to say is that we've worked hard to maintain compatibility, so that any program written with an earlier version of Mathematica can run without change in 3.0, and any notebook can be converted.

Reading code is like reading all things written: You have to scribble, make a mess, remind yourself that the work comes to you through trial and error and revision.

Learn computer science. It's extraordinarily helpful. I like recommending learning economics as well so they think in terms of business, they have rational frameworks for looking at the world, but yeah, computer science is an amazing way to get into, even if you want to be CEO, having a tech background is helpful.

He had little patience for the mystical, spiritual approach of computer programming.

The trouble was that clarity and simplicity were more important in computer language than in human language.

The computer programmer creates the only path available to the computer user; the effect of his decisions on others is masked by their abstraction.

The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Many jobs at Google require math, computing, and coding skills, so if your good grades truly reflect skills in those areas that you can apply, it would be an advantage. But Google has its eyes on much more.

A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things.

The fact that 'goto' can do anything is exactly why we don't use it.

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.

There is a high school trap where girls get lost in computing.

The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.

the road to programming hell is paved with global variables

Copy and paste is a design error

complicated code is a sign that you don't understand your program well enough to make it simple.