Software Engineer Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

Tim Berners-Lee

#3. Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.

Linus Torvalds

#4. It should be noted that no ethically -trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

Nathaniel S. Borenstein

#5. Never offer advice just to appear concerned.

Jack Gardner

#6. As a software engineer, how do you feel if your code was running in the production environment being used by millions of customers 30 minutes after you commit it to source control?

Paul Swartout

#7. He tried to remember how this happened - how she went from someone he'd never met to the only one who mattered.

Rainbow Rowell

#8. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Jamie Zawinski

#9. I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.

Shane Carruth

#10. Some write. Others Code. I art...!!

Anonymous

#11. Nothing or nobody can make you feel something you don't think. Your thinking, and only your thinking, creates your feelings.

Garret Kramer

#12. I am very happily employed as a full-time software engineer; I travel a lot, and I write books along with this here weekly TechCrunch column; and I still find the time to work on my own software side projects.

Jon Evans

#13. What I see in the book is an exquisite form of technology: one that doesn't require a power source and can be passed from hand to hand and lasts a lot longer than an electronic reader.

Louise Erdrich

#14. The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.

Grady Booch

#15. On the death of his brothers, my dad lied about his age and joined the army in 1918. He was in the trenches long enough to be gassed and contract the early stages of tuberculosis from which he would eventually die just before my birth.

Michael Foreman

#16. His errors and failures have not traveled the same distance as his successes.

Rick Bass

#17. Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.

Fred Brooks

#18. There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.

Alan Cooper

#19. A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they're doing work that most any trained person could do.

Seth Godin

#20. I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks.

Patty Hearst

#21. As far back as I can remember, I had an interest in fashion. I used to go to sleepaway camp, and they'd provide a list of things that you had to bring, and I always wanted to be a bit more creative than the list allowed. Like, if they required chinos, I wanted to hand-paint them.

Marc Jacobs

#22. Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.

Jane Jensen

#23. The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

Grady Booch

#24. Data scientist (noun): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician. - Josh Wills

Rachel Schutt

#25. When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.

Mark Sheppard

#26. My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.

Suraj Sharma

#27. 'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.

Jack Horner

#28. In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

Naguib Mahfouz

#29. Using the Internet to secure employment is as vital to a construction worker as it is to a software engineer.

Leila Janah

#30. I think the act of talking about something - with a friend, or someone in your family, or someone you care about, and you're discussing something that you both admire - can often sharpen your thoughts about what you've read or seen and help you think more clearly about it.

Paul Auster

#31. If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's illegal to reverse engineer the source code of commercial software to find out how it works.

Clive Thompson