Coders Quotes

Great coders are today’s rock stars.

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

A coder will be the next rock star.

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

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

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

Design adds value faster than it adds cost.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

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 :)

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.

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

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.