Quotes About Coding

Coding - everyone thinks it's a superpower. And so when you feel like, 'I've learned how to code,' and you say to your mom or the girl sitting next to you, 'I know how that app is built, I know the logic behind how that was created' - that's powerful.

Teaching someone to program is like giving them a superpower.

I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.

There are three things a man must do before his life is done; Write two lines in APL, And make the buggers run.

Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.

Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else.

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

Do not be alarmed by the minor inconsistencies in the syntax. They are meant to heighten your level of attention and thereby make you a better programmer.

The task of the cryptanalysts consisted primarily of reconstructing the wiring and switches of the coding wheels—a task made more burdensome by the daily change of plugboard connections.

He was doing what he had always wanted to do: code games. And he was happy, in the moment as always, not thinking at all about what would come next. If he could be here working on games with enough money for food and shelter, that was good enough for him. As he told the other guys on one of his very first days, put him in a closet with a computer, a pizza, and some Diet Cokes, and he would be fine.

The situation is so much better for programmers today -- a cheap used PC, a Linux CD, and an Internet account, and you have all the tools and resources necessary to work your way to any level of programming skills you want to shoot for.

Prime numbers have become secrecy's best friends.

Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.

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.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

I use a computer. I don't know if that qualifies me as a techie, but I'm pretty good on the computer.

This is just another example of API users engaging in "empiric programming." They don't care about what is right or wrong, but only what works and what doesn't. Because this coding style simply used to work, API users exploited it without any problems.