Quotes About Coding

hackerese pejorative.

To hackers, a program was an organic entity that had a life independent from that of its author.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Software is the language of automation.

Software makes the world go round.

Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

I'm really good at making software for publishing.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.

If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.

If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.

I know one business, and that's how to make software.

I want to see us remain convinced that software matters in the future.

It has occurred to me that if people really knew how software got written, I'm not sure they'd give their money to a bank or get on an airplane ever again.

Software increasingly defines the world around us.

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

Hackers often describe what they do as playfully creative problem solving.

I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.

Programming is full of odd ideas. Using shorter, less descriptive names often produces code that's more readable overall. The most powerful languages usually have far fewer concepts than the lesser ones. And failing and copying may be the best way to produce successful, original work. - Patrick Collison is a student at MIT.

Microsoft has no SQL Server developers. We have only Azure developers.

You shouldn't be learning how to code when you're middle-aged. You should be learning how to code when you're a kid.