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Computer Programmer Inspirational Quotes (154)

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I think [Wine] will be, at a minimum, incredibly useful to archeology, like DosBox has been for playing Wing Commander. Certainly it has been known to save the day with modern titles, too. But to have it as the agreed-upon way to how you play video games on Linux is completely unacceptable for several reasons, both technical and moral.
Ryan C. Gordon
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You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.
Bram Cohen
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JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.
Douglas Crockford
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There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being touched by a gay program. That's kind of funny.
Eric Allman
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Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those people. If I had a motto, it would probably be Herd thither, me hither.
Erik Naggum
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There is no justice in following unjust laws.
Aaron Swartz
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I’m a bit of a design enthusiast, and like spending time with my girlfriend and mates.
Nick D'Aloisio
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There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of simplicity, but I'm not sure it has helped.
Ward Cunningham
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The simple fact is that code quality tends to improve as you move between platforms... non-obvious bugs on Windows become VERY obvious in the Linux port and vice versa, and thus get fixed. So even the Windows gamers will win in all of this.
Ryan C. Gordon
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History is sympathetic to its authors.
John McAfee
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If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.
Guido van Rossum
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Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have it's one of those classic Internet companies.
Nick D'Aloisio
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For me, coding is a form of self-expression. The company controls the most effective means of self-expression I have. This is unacceptable to me as an individual, therefore I must leave.
Justin Frankel
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The currency in the developer community is enthusiasm.
Erik Naggum
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Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature used and abused east and west is exceptionally exciting to debug.
Erik Naggum
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The aspects you are willing to ignore are more important than the aspects you are willing to accept.
Erik Naggum
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Software production is like any other production the preceded it, no raw materials are required, no time is required and no effort is required, you can make a million Copies of Software instantaneously for free and its very unique about that.
John McAfee
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I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.
John McAfee
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Software as an asset isn't stable over time it needs to be maintained.
Brian Behlendorf
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'Code sharing' is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need.
Erik Naggum
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Don't use hands to do things that can be efficiently done by the computer.
Tom Duff
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I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. Perl is the first such thing I have known.
Erik Naggum
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If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.
John McAfee
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Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.
Erik Naggum
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