Quotes About Software Developers

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. A November, 2012 article in India Times claims software developers are obsolete by age 40. That's a tough age to start a new career.

Robert Oshana

#4. Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.

Richard Stallman

#5. While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

Bill Gates

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Kent Beck

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

Vivek Wadhwa

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

Laura Griffin

#11. it enjoys strong network effects from its content ecosystem: thousands of developers write software for Apple devices because that's where hundreds of millions of users are, and those users stay on the platform because it's where the apps are.

Peter Thiel

#12. Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.

Jean De La Bruyere

#13. I actually believe in redistribution (of wealth)

Barack Obama

#14. It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.

Nat Friedman

#15. 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

#16. That is the nature of time. It flows faster when it was younger and the course is narrower: at the end of all things time has spread and slowed, lik oil spilled on a still pond.

Neil Gaiman

#17. If Arkansas is, indeed, one big family, Eureka Springs remains its eccentric uncle.

Rex Nelson

#18. Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

Claire Danes

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

Eric S. Raymond

#20. 'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

Tom Robbins

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

Kent Beck

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Things are always different than what they might be ... If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

Henry James

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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