Quotes About Coding

Coming from a programming background, I have a good sense of what's feasible and what's not feasible in a game.

I started taking programming lessons at the age of 10.

If I'm being completely honest, when it comes to artificial intelligence and computer programming... I bought this little book at Barnes and Noble called 'Artificial Intelligence for Dummies' and that was quite a helpful resource for my work.

I definitely think there needs to be more of a focus and movement on getting coding taught in schools. There's really only so much after-school programs like Black Girls Code can do to really drive that change. And those classes shouldn't only take place in high school. We should make sure that we teach kids about coding at an early age.

I write my programs primarily for myself.

There is people who make stuff with words. There is people who make stuff with programs. And I really believe that that whole creative culture, people didn't realize how creative programming is. And anybody who's done it of course knows that not only is it creative, but it's incredibly absorbing.

I kind of 'code-sketch,' where I get started with a project by actually writing the code for it and getting something up on the screen. Then I play around with it and see if it's any fun and change the parts that aren't.

The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.

In the case of 'Fish,' I did the writing, design, and code all at the same time, so the form and the content were fused together. I'd change some words, get an idea, change some code, see if it worked, change more words, and so on.

Programming is a pretty tricky thing to start learning. You need to combine it with comedy to get a wider audience.

I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.

Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.

Life is short (You need Python)

In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It's harder than anything else I've ever had to do.

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

if(pot.coffee=EMPTY) {programmer->;brain=OFF};

Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.

The New Testament offers the basis for modern computer coding theory, in the form of an affirmation of the binary number system. "But let your communication be Yea, yea; nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil." Matthew 5:37

Caffeine Allocation Error: COFFEE.SYS missing, Programmer halted.

A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.

Old programmers never die. They just can't C as well.

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.