X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Programmer Inspirational Quotes (2877)

Page 2 of 120
Filter & Style
Image
Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.
Andy Hertzfeld
Image
We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.
Andy Hertzfeld
Image
I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
Andy Hertzfeld
Image
I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.
Andy Hertzfeld
Image
I'm the kind of developer who likes to throw lightning rods around. To make a great program there's got to be at least one person at the center who is breathing life into it. In a ferocious way.
Andy Hertzfeld
Image
I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school
Andy Hertzfeld
Image
I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.
Andy Hertzfeld
Image
I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II
Andy Hertzfeld
Image
Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.
Rob Pike
Image
Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.
Jesse James Garrett
Image
One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.
Dennis Ritchie
Image
How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.
Bill Gates
Image
Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
Bill Gates
Image
You want stealth? Be a rogue in 'World of Warcraft'.
John Romero
Image
C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into which any random function may write random values without having a clue where they point, has not been debunked as the sheer idiocy it really is.
Erik Naggum
Image
Sequential programming is really hard, and parallel programming is a step beyond that.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Image
While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Image
A lot of other people wanted a free production UNIX with lots of bells and whistles and wanted to convert MINIX into that. I was dragged along in the maelstrom for a while, but when Linux came along, I was actually relieved that I could go back to professoring.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Image
UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Image
I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Image
People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.
Andy Hertzfeld
Image
If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.
Bill Gates
Image
The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.
Julian Assange
Image
You grow more when you get more people's perspective.
Mark Zuckerberg
Previous
Next