Quotes About Coding

Someone who combines HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills might be called a "front-end developer.

useful thing about a File object is that it offers a much safer way to represent a file than just using a String file name.

Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.

software development was insecurities all the way down. Even

When it's hard to work on. I do it much quicker than most people do. I'll throw away code as soon I want to add something to it and I get the feeling that what I have to do to add it is too hard. I'll throw it away and start over and come up with a different partitioning that makes it easy to do whatever I wanted to do. I'm really quick on the trigger for throwing stuff out.

Listening , Testing , Coding , Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something .

Simplicity only makes sense in context. If I'm writing a parser with a team that understands parser generators, then using a parser generator is simple. If the team doesn't know anything about parsing and the language is simple, a recursive descent parser is simpler.

Write tests until fear is transformed into boredom

The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user.

If you are working on a computer science programming assignment, schedule yourself to finish a week early so you can add a host of extra bells and whistles.

It's like the free puppy," I continue. "It's not the upfront capital that kills you, it's the operations and maintenance on the back end." Chris cracks up. "Yes, exactly! They'll say, 'The puppy can't quite do everything we need. Can you train it to fly airplanes? It's just a simple matter of coding, right?

It was important to us that for a developer, adding production telemetry didn't feel as difficult as doing a database schema change.

what's the plural of 'developer'?" says Maxine. "A 'merge conflict.

if we all want our developers to be productive, they need to be able to perform builds on Day One.

Maxine loves coding and she's awesome at it. But she knows that there's something even more important than code: the systems that enable developers to be productive, so that they can write high-quality code quickly and safely, freeing themselves from all the things that prevent them from solving important business problems.

technical debt is what you feel the next time you want to make a change.

Developers are even worse than networking people. Show me a developer who isn't crashing production systems, and I'll show you one who can't fog a mirror. Or more likely, is on vacation.

The transposition of two Letters by five placeings will be sufficient for 32 Differences [and] by this Art a way is opened, whereby a man may expresse and signifie the intentions of his minde, at any distance of place, by objects … capable of a twofold difference onely,

The Decathlon was conceived to assess the men's success from 65 to 80, but all but one of the events could be estimated for the 14 men who died between 58 and 64 years of age, and therefore they were included. Men who died before their 58th birthdays, however, were excluded. ** The men were coded

Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.

We will depend on American students who can turn their literacy in coding and computer science into creative solutions that address the complex problems facing our nation.

We knew that all the protein-coding bits of genes do is to produce protein - they have to have instructions to turn them on and off. Those sequences lie well outside the protein-coding sequences, sometimes thousands, tens of thousands of bases away.

The word 'code' turns out to be a really important word for my book, 'The Information.' The genetic code is just one example. We talk now about coders, coding. Computer guys are coders. The stuff they write is code.

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.