Quotes About Coding

When you learn to code, it opens up for you to learn many other things.

To call up a demon you must learn its name. Men dreamed that, once, but now it is real in another way. You know that, Case. Your business is to learn the names of programs, the long formal names, names the owners seek to conceal. True names . . .

Frontend engineering rocks right now.

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly.

It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.

We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet.

By the time I was a senior in high school, I knew I wanted to move to Silicon Valley and learn more about computers and the Internet. I just fell in love with technology and the potential of everything the Internet had to offer.

It was written in the ancient RUNIX spell-language, and is read-only and can't be modified.

Our own dimension was coded ID-11 and was the only League member with diphtheria, David Hasselhoff and the French, which amused the rest of the multiverse no end.

I don't like test names. Technically they're method names, but they're never called explicitly.

Within a single test, DRY can often apply.

If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.

Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.

If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.

The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.

As a programmer, you're working with very simple structures compared to the brain. So I was always fascinated by how the brain works.

A great programmer, on a roll, could create a million dollars worth of wealth in a couple weeks. A mediocre programmer over the same period will generate zero or even neg- ative wealth (e.g. by introducing bugs). This is why so many of the best programmers are libertarians.

One of the less publicized benefits of the open source movement is that it has made it easier to learn to program.

Programmers tend to be divided into tribes by the languages they use. More even than by the kinds of programs they write.

A great programmer, on a roll, could create a million dollars worth of wealth in a couple weeks. A mediocre programmer over the same period will generate zero or even negative wealth (e.g. by introducing bugs). This is why so many of the best programmers are libertarians. In our world, you sink or swim, and there are no excuses.

Programmers have a saying: garbage in, garbage out.

Computer security was only as good as the programmer. The one who had fire walled this database has been good ---but not great. - Robert Puller