Coders Quotes

• Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

  Linus Torvalds

  Linux, Programming, Show Me

  Linux kernel mailing list message, lkml.org. August 25, 2000.

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• While I wouldn't object to work at a restaurant or a different place that sells decent-or-better food, I think that I can learn much more by becoming a coder.

  Emma Watson

  Thinking, Becoming, Different

  Source: www.shlomifish.org

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• I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

  Maurice Wilkes

  Mistake, Debugging, Funny Computer

  Lecture titled "The Design and Use of the EDSAC" delivered by Maurice Wilkes at the Digital Computer Museum, tcm.computerhistory.org. September 23, 1979.

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• The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

  Seymour Cray

  Technology, Too Late, Computer

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• As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

  Maurice Wilkes

  Mistake, Technology, Debugging

  "The Design and Use of the EDSAC". Lecture delivered at the Digital Computer Museum, September 23, 1979.

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• For instance, I assume those "carrots" we have on our keyboards were there originally to express "greater than" and "less than." Then they were adopted by coders, and now they show up all the time in the way email addresses are constructed. At least I think that's what happened.

  Michael Bierut

  Thinking, Addresses, Keyboards

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended purposes. These coders introduce multiplicity where none existed and challenge definitions of intent for the entire environment of programming language, machine and system.

  Stephanie Strickland

  Reflection, Self, Poetry

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• It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.

  Keith Braithwaite

  Mistake, Curious, Programming

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• It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.

  Steve McConnell

  Funny Inspirational, Errors, Enough

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• Design adds value faster than it adds cost.

  Joel Spolsky

  Design, Add, Cost

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• Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

  Larry Wall

  Technology, Jurassic Park, Design

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• I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.

  Bill Budge

  Pushing

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• See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

  Linus Torvalds

  Linux, Sneaky

  Linux newsgroup post, July 05, 1996.

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• A coder will be the next rock star.

  Neelie Kroes

  Stars, Rocks, Next

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• If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.

  will.i.am

  Musician, Want, Computer

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Great coders are today’s rock stars.

  will.i.am

  Stars, Rocks, Today

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• For all the folks getting excited about my quotes. Here is another - Yes, I am a terrible coder, but I am probably still better than you :)

  Rasmus Lerdorf

  Excited, Terrible, Folks

  Twitter post from Apr 19, 2010

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• I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.

  Dallas Roberts

  Twelve, Has Beens, Atari

  "Q&A – Dallas Roberts (Miles Fiedler)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. August 2010.

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