Quotes About Developers

#1. I know reels can be expensive but even if you construct one on your own if you don't have enough money to get a more professional one while you're getting started, as far as college animators go or young indie developers I don't think they are going to care if you have the highest quality reel yet.

Ashly Burch

#2. Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.

Jennifer Pahlka

#3. I know and have worked alongside some of the designers, developers, and editors at Vox Media; you'd be proud to work with any of them.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#4. I've been a software engineer, a novelist, a journalist, and a manager - and managing developers is easily the trickiest thing I've ever done.

Jon Evans

#5. We at The Web Standards Project turned everything on its head. We said browsers should support the same standards instead of competing to invent new tags and scripting languages. We said designers, developers, and content folks should create one site that was accessible to everyone.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#6. While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.

Evgeny Morozov

#7. I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

Joni Mitchell

#8. I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.

Theo De Raadt

#9. We have only one Windows. We don't have multiple Windows. They run across multiple form factors, but it's one developer platform, one store, one tool chain for developers. And you adapt it for different screen sizes and different input and output.

Satya Nadella

#10. Games take years to make, and it's important that when we launch, it can't just be a great launch catalog and then a desert for a really long time. To be honest, for a lot of developers, they'd rather not be competing at launch with all this other software.

Palmer Luckey

#11. IE6 was a bad experience for consumers, but it was a terrible for developers. Not only it was technically bad, but it was closed, and you couldn't do much with it.

Mitchell Baker

#12. In 2007, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would become a 'platform,' meaning that outside developers could start creating applications that would run inside the site. It worked.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#13. 'Fowl Space' was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in the middle of all that ink and crumpled paper, a chicken in a space helmet was born and thus we have 'Fowl Space.'

Rob Manuel

#14. Users are trying to discover apps; we are trying to improve the app discovery process, and developers are trying to reach users. If you step back, it's a problem we solved with search and ads in search.

Sundar Pichai

#15. It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created.

Anders Hejlsberg

#16. It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all available incentives.

Larry Williams

#17. DEDICATION To my computer: I couldn't have written this without you To the software developers responsible for spellcheck: You are my everyday heroes To Karen: I hope this makes you laugh and makes you proud. To my readers (all 3 of you): Thank you

Penny Reid

#18. Software craftsmanship is a long journey to mastery. It's a mindset where software developers choose to be responsible for their own careers, constantly learning new tools and techniques and constantly bettering themselves.

Sandro Mancuso

#19. Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.

Orison Swett Marden

#20. I did my degree in journalism, and I then went on to being a games journalist, reviewing and previewing games and writing about the industry, visiting and interviewing developers.

Rhianna Pratchett

#21. If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#22. Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent.

James Chanos

#23. In the wake of the tax bonanzas for new commercial projects, roadside strips boomed. Private developers responded to the lack of planned centers, public space, and public facilities in suburbs by building malls, office parks, and industrial parks as well as fast-food restaurants and motels.

Dolores Hayden

#24. The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

Linus Torvalds

#25. Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.

Linus Torvalds

#26. Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are more epic.

Jane McGonigal

#27. Half of this business is politics. As real estate developers, it's our job to go in there and get beat up.

Ross Perot Jr.

#28. I can mostly laugh at myself and this whole mess called "Linux developers," which means that I get along with most people and most people get along with me.

Linus Torvalds

#29. They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go.

Jose Gonzalez

#30. developers insert an average of 1 to 3 defects per hour into their designs and 5 to 8 defects per hour into code

Steve McConnell

#31. There are many ways to achieve developer happiness, but making your core business products a playground for developers seeking novelty is the path to hell.

Anonymous

#32. Somebody has to pay our editors, writers, journalists, designers, developers, and all the other specialists whose passion and tears go into every chunk of worthwhile web content.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#33. Bezos proclaimed at the time, according to numerous employees: "Developers are alchemists and our job is to do everything we can to get them to do their alchemy.

Brad Stone

#34. The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.

Warren Spector

#35. Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C

Eric S. Raymond

#36. It might seem like an unlikely pairing, but APIs and BD have a critical relationship. APIs help speed up partnerships between two companies. They give developers the ability to grab functionality and/or build upon the platform, therefore making a partnership easier to execute.

Alexander Taub

#37. Why do most developers fear to make continuous changes to their code? They are afraid they'll break it! Why are they afraid they'll break it? Because they don't have tests.

Robert C. Martin

#38. We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.

Jim Barksdale

#39. A good standalone plugin can also make you a fair amount of money. Many developers make a decent living by simply maintaining and updating one or two crucial plugins that are far better than anything available for free.

Robert Duchnik

#40. The activities of automobile manufacturers, commercial real estate developers, and the federal government have been far more important in determining patterns of transportation than consumer choice.

Dolores Hayden

#41. Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

Ray Ozzie

#42. AIR grew out of our early thinking about rich Internet applications around 2001. We started to see web developers pushing the boundaries of what could be done inside the browser and taking advantage of Flash in ways that we hadn't expected.

Kevin Lynch

#43. So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing.

Alphonso Jackson

#44. How many software developers does it take to change a lightbulb? None, it's a hardware problem.

Laura Griffin

#45. I actually think Facebook made it their business to be close with all of the app developers. They couldn't have done more.

Max Levchin

#46. Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.

Kent Beck

#47. Today, Web services is really about developing for the server. What it means to developers is any set of systems services that you make a Web service you to access by any kind of device with a highly interactive client, not just a browser.

John Fowler

#48. items previously signed by authorized developers.

Anonymous

#49. Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.

Eric S. Raymond

#50. I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client so far.

Fumihiko Maki

#51. Kindle is no longer a test Kindle and is unable to test items previously signed by authorized developers. If you want your device to be a test Kindle again, please contact the developer. Thank You, The Kindle Team Message sent: April 15, 2014 at 1:01 PM.

Anonymous

#52. We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?

Jesse Schell

#53. Our developers will make great games for whatever high-end platforms exist.

Mike Wilson

#54. Ultimately, going into the consumer market, we really need outstanding content. That was the goal: if we can get the developer kit out at a low enough cost point, then hopefully a lot of developers would show up and start creating content.

Brendan Iribe

#55. The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think It's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted.

Gabe Newell

#56. It may be that other developers are finding that their games play better on one platform over the other, so they're choosing to migrate to that platform.

Sid Meier

#57. I have been able to attend many technology conferences around the world over the years, including some of the largest, like Google I/O, Microsoft's Developer Conference, Apple's WorldWide Developers Conference, Oracle World, Le Web, and more.

Megan Smith

#58. Good developers know how things work. Great developers know why things work.

Ilya Grigorik

#59. Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.

Linus Torvalds

#60. One of the biggest problems that software developers face is that technology changes rapidly. It is very hard to stay current.

Vivek Wadhwa

#61. Games aren't created by writers rocking up to developers saying 'I have this great game story.' It's about establishing relationships and working hand in hand to create something wonderful.

Rhianna Pratchett

#62. Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey).

Bill Kraus

#63. For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies and a regulatory process so slanted in favor of Big Oil that often permit reviews are simply waived.

Chellie Pingree

#64. Clearly, private developers can have different aims, and architects can only play a certain role. You can have some pretty big battles on public commissions, too. The key is to have a good client.

Richard Rogers

#65. The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected.

Gale Norton

#66. This notion of universal Windows apps is a very powerful concept because we're now aggregating the 300-plus-million-socket run rate of Windows into one opportunity for our developers.

Satya Nadella

#67. Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks.

Mitchell Baker

#68. One of the best strengtheners of character and developers of stamina ... is to assume the part you wish to play; to assert stoutly the possession of whatever you lack.

Orison Swett Marden

#69. I think starting in anime, like I did, gave me a good idea of how to approach games that come from Japan. Japanese developers can be very different from companies here in the western market.

Laura Bailey

#70. We have seen a lot of interest from Chinese developers on Google Play because the extent to which Android is used. If we can figure out a model by which we can serve those users, it would be a privilege to do so. So I don't think of China as a black hole.

Sundar Pichai

#71. The feature delivery approach helps define a workable interface between customers and product developers.

Jim Highsmith

#72. It's never been an easy work for developers to create something unique which impresses the client and you know, this is what we call customization.

Anonymous

#73. A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.

Eric S. Raymond

#74. Gamers are everywhere, coming in all ages and genders, and developers have grown up, too.

Warren Spector

#75. There are signs, these days, that the cultural hegemony of postmodernism is weakening in the West. When even the developers tell an architect like Moshe Safdie that they are tired of it, then can philosophical thinking be far behind?

David Harvey

#76. People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste for the players, in comparison with Japanese games. I think that means that the Western developers and Japanese developers, they are good at different fields.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#77. When you don't involve design from the beginning, other people, developers and business types, end up making design decisions without even really knowing it. These decisions later become constraints that the actual designer has to work around.

Jessica Karle Heltzel

#78. There is a strong movement towards increased accountability for software developers and software development organizations.

Kent Beck

#79. I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code.

Richard Stallman

#80. The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users.

Satya Nadella

#81. I think the downloadable scene in general is really, really interesting for developers because it's low-risk. It doesn't require as much money as a triple-A title. And it's a great proving ground for new IPs, new concepts, new ideas - things that I think I, as a developer, find really attractive.

Kim Swift

#82. The divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.

Steve Martin

#83. I've loved some gadgets that were not worthy, and I've loved gadgets that I would have loved more if I had waited for their developers to figure out how to really make them work, but I loved them anyway.

Susan Orlean

#84. bringing together the professionals, such as experience designers, user experience researchers, front-end developers and prototypers, under a single umbrella.

Anonymous

#85. My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.

Hakeem Jeffries

#86. Sometimes abstraction and encapsulation are at odds with performance - although not nearly as often as many developers believe - but it is always a good practice first to make your code right, and then make it fast.

Brian Goetz

#87. Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

Hayao Miyazaki

#88. In short: developers do not give players enough credit. And maybe even players don't give players enough credit.

Ragnar Tornquist

#89. When I was young, we didn't have indie games. We had 'garage developers' or similar terms, who were just small teams making games out of passion.

Markus Persson

#90. The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at ... good developers like working with each other. And they ... they reinforce each other's skills.

Bill Gates

#91. Cucumber gives the business, developers, and testers a way to collaborate and specify, in plain English, how the system should work.

Seb Rose

#92. Development in this county is always going to be an issue. Until development and zoning are handled on a regional basis, rather than each municipality left to its own devices, we will suffer from developers having the upper hand in suits and in front of zoning boards.

John Murray

#93. The real fight is the fight of software developers, of the people who have been writing the software of the financial system. We call on them, in order for them to do what Wikileaks has done in the field of information. Decommission, rewrite, and change the course of the future.

Anonymous

#94. Small developers can compete on creativity not on scale or staff size ... Nintendo is willing to help bring these ideas to life,

Satoru Iwata

#95. Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#96. I'd like to see an arrested growth of development. You can't stop it, but it's important we do something about the developers having the upper hand.

John Murray

#97. I remember the first year at the Game Developers Conference I wore these big red giant knee-high boots. Nobody cared. You can wear anything you love, because that's what you do in games. You make yourself who you want to be.

Jane McGonigal

#98. Reducing risk, which is the primary mission of testing, clearly creates economic value for product developers. In fact, reducing risk is so centrally important to product development that it is indispensable for us to quantify its economic impact.

Donald G. Reinertsen

#99. In any market, in any country, there are developers who make money. So I say all of this doom and gloom, but there will always be people who make money, because people always want homes.

Sarah Beeny

#100. In 21 projects studied that same year, estimates were prepared by a third party, typically a systems analyst. The developers in these cases substantially outperformed the projects in which estimating was done by a programmer and/or a supervisor

Tom DeMarco