Writing Code Quotes

#1. I seem to get totally wrapped up in teaching and working with students during the school year. During the summer, I try to spend time in the real world, writing code for therapy and perhaps for some useful purpose.

Brian Kernighan

#2. Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design.

Joel Spolsky

#3. Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to use - now that's the hard stuff.

Jeff Atwood

#4. I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.

Paul Buchheit

#5. I find if you're targeting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X right from the start, your code will probably work anywhere else that you might try it later ... Writing code that is cross-platform from the start requires more discipline, but I find it is worth the effort.

Ryan C. Gordon

#6. At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person's job.

Michael Crichton

#7. If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's writing code. No, if you want to know what society's going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher.

Clifford Stoll

#8. I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

Richard Stallman

#9. Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

Larry Wall

#10. Not only are we reading life code, we're beginning to copy it through cloning, and we're beginning to write, and in the measure that we do that, boy, you can build a lot of very powerful companies in a short period of time.

Juan Enriquez

#11. People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.

John McWhorter

#12. I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.

Richard Stallman

#13. When you actually sit down to write some code, you learn things that you didn't get from thinking about them in modeling terms ... there is a feedback process there that you can only really get at from executing some things and seeing what works

Martin Fowler

#14. It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.

Juan Enriquez

#15. There may be 300,000 apps for the iPhone and iPad, but the only app you really need is the browser. You don't need an app for the web ... You don't need to go through some kind of SDK ... You can use your web tools ... And you can publish your apps to the BlackBerry without writing any native code.

Jim Balsillie

#16. In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not
there if you want to keep writing good code.

Karl Lehenbauer

#17. I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.

Dan Brown

#18. All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code.

Dave Thomas

#19. It's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ...

John Geddes

#20. Nerds get what they want when they want it, and they go psycho if it's not immediately available. Nerds overfocus. I guess that's the problem. But it's precisely this ability to narrow-focus that makes them so good at code writing ...

Douglas Coupland

#21. Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name.
(Discussion at Woodruff Auditorium in Lawrence, KS; October 7, 2005.)

Salman Rushdie

#22. I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.

Vikram Chandra

#23. Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

Tom Van Vleck

#24. It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.

Joshua Bloch

#25. Equal interchange of goods and service between buyer and seller is the keynote of tomorrow's business world when the vision of the modern business man awakens him to the wisdom of writing that policy into his code of ethics.

Walter Russell

#26. Genetic code is a divine writing.

Toba Beta

#27. The French philosopher Jacques Derrida likens writing fiction to a software code that operates in the hardware of your mind. Stringing together separate macros that, combined, will create a reaction.

Chuck Palahniuk

#28. Any character who goes after a desire and is impeded is forced to struggle (otherwise the story is over.) And that struggle makes him change. So the ultimate goal of the dramatic code, and of the storyteller, is to present a change in a character or to illustrate why that change did not occur.

John Truby

#29. Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

Bob Ney

#30. Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

Brian Kernighan

#31. You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.

Bill Gates

#32. We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it.

Craig Venter

#33. Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people.

Mike Davidson

#34. I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft ... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

Chantal Kreviazuk

#35. Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call yourself a professional. There is no reasonable excuse for doing anything less than your best.

Robert C. Martin

#36. It's a myth that Sanskrit is the best language for writing computer code. Patriotic Indians have spread this lie for many years - Bill Gates

Manu Joseph

#37. Tell your idea to whomever will listen, and you'll get valuable market feedback before writing a single line of code.

Aaron Patzer

#38. Little else matters than to write good code.

Karl Lehenbauer

#39. Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.

Larry Constantine

#40. The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

Fernando J. Corbato

#41. I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff out of Unix. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, 'Hey, reboot it.'"

Tom Van Vleck

#42. All of a sudden Mindy [Kaling] was writing on The Office and had sold a TV show. When we'd try to write shows, we'd jokingly call the word documents "Hit Show." We just couldn't crack the code.

Jake M. Johnson

#43. But everyone should try writing a little code, because it somehow sharpens the mind, right?

Jeff Atwood

#44. The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code,

Douglas McIlroy

#45. Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?

Stephen Hawking

#46. It's harder to read code than to write it.

Joel Spolsky

#47. More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about. Never mind the intellectual hypocrisy of this: Those who violate the clublike code are made out to be wrong, immoral, corrupt.

Jerry Saltz

#48. It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.

Dan Brown

#49. Indeed, the ratio of time spent reading versus writing is well over 10 to 1. We are constantly reading old code as part of the effort to write new code. ...[Therefore,] making it easy to read makes it easier to write.

Robert C. Martin

#50. i.e., TestNG". This technique helps a beginner learn how to read the code before writing the code. The following are steps to install Selenium IDE: Steps

Rex Allen Jones II

#51. Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.

Linus Torvalds

#52. Just getting something to work usually means writing reams of code fast, like a Stephen King novel, but making it maintainable and high-quality code that really expresses the ideas well, is like writing poetry. Art is taking away.

Erik Naggum

#53. Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

Martin Fowler

#54. The main difference between writing JavaScript code like the average Joe (or Jill) and writing it like a JavaScript ninja is understanding JavaScript as a functional language.

Anonymous

#55. If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.

Clifford Geertz

#56. What's a TH?"
"A Traffic Hazard," Heeb clarified.
"Oh you mean because the woman is so hot she'll take your eyes off the road?" Narc confirmed.
"Exactly.

Zack Love

#57. Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it ismainly a matter of convincing the illiterates, for they are the ones who write the penal code.

Karl Kraus

#58. An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.

Linus Torvalds

#59. Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code).

Eric Lander

#60. I know I can be accused of sacrilege in writing about political economy in the style of a novel about love or pirates. But I confess I get a pain from reading valuable works by certain sociologists, political experts, economists and historians who write in code.

Eduardo Galeano

#61. I actually don't believe that everybody should necessarily try to learn to code. I think it's reasonably specialized, and nobody really expects most people to have to do it. It's not like knowing how to read and write and do basic math.

Linus Torvalds

#62. Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.

Seth Godin

#63. I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

Richard Stallman