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Computer Programmer Inspirational Quotes (154)

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Just getting something to work usually means writing reams of code fast, like a Stephen King novel, but making it maintainable and high-quality code that really expresses the ideas well, is like writing poetry. Art is taking away.
Erik Naggum
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People optimize locally - that is, they do what's best for themselves.
Eric Allman
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What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.
Ward Cunningham
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The content people have no clue. I mean, no clue. The cost of bandwidth is going down to nothing. And the size of hard drives is getting so big, and they're so cheap, that pretty soon you'll have every song you own on one hard drive. The content distribution industry is going to evaporate.
Bram Cohen
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I do know that the world knows or thinks that I have money and lots of it. They perceive me as an old weak man and an easy target.
John McAfee
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It used to be that, when something strange happened, we'd hear on the news Police believe this is the act of an isolated nut. On the internet there are no isolated nuts whatever kind of nut you are, you can find fifty nuts in the world exactly like you.
Bruce Perens
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There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.
Brian Behlendorf
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Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users.
Douglas Crockford
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If you want to know why Lisp doesn't win around you, find a mirror.
Erik Naggum
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Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.
Douglas Crockford
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I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make.
Guido van Rossum
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It turns out that strong typing does not eliminate the need for careful testing. And I have found in my work that the sorts of errors that strong type checking finds are no the errors I worry about.
Douglas Crockford
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it's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result is that thieves and bums use C++ and nice people use CLOS.
Erik Naggum
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I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students.
Andrew Tridgell
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The App Store has democratized the creation of content. As a 12-year-old kid, I was able to put my application on the store. No one knows whos behind the screen so you cant tell Im a 12-year-old.
Nick D'Aloisio
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Lawyers can't tell you you can't do something. They can warn you about risks, and in extreme cases tell you that something is such a bad idea you'll need to get someone other than them to do it but the judgment call of whether the risk is worth it is the entrepreneur's.
Bram Cohen
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Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would essentially have to work with it, too, to get back the costs, and that would just be some long, drawn-out torture.
Erik Naggum
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In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable.
Bram Cohen
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I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.
Aaron Swartz
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Have you considered the option of getting the joke? If not, try it now and redeem your soul.
Erik Naggum
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The Web provided me with a much needed realization that information cannot be fully separated from its presentation, and showed me something I knew without verbalizing explicitly, that the presentation form we choose communicates real information.
Erik Naggum
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Just because something is a standard doesn’t mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example.
Douglas Crockford
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I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of history exam. The problem was I was trying to find information that was useful to me. When you type into Google an esoteric term, you get quite a lot of stuff that's not relevant.
Nick D'Aloisio
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Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking that's so insightful! that changes everything, but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.
Aaron Swartz
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