Writing code is both focusing and unreasonably fun. — Greg Brockman
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. — Dennis Ritchie
One trick to programming faster is to do less in your head & run the code more. — Greg Brockman
Coding is the language of the future, and every girl should learn it. As I've learned from watching girls grow and learn in our classrooms, coding is fun, collaborative and creative. — Reshma Saujani
Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains. — Bill Gates
Code never lies, comments sometimes do. — Ron Jeffries
I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia. — Richard Stallman
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. — Richard E. Pattis
Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead consumers of computer science. — Maria Klawe
Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry — Ted Nelson
Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures. — Douglas Crockford
Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software. — Larry Constantine
Web programming is the science of coming up with increasingly complicated ways of concatenating strings. — Greg Brockman
Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning. — Nicholas Negroponte
Short Writing Code Quotes
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books. — Alan Turing
Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code — Martin Fowler
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. — Kent Beck
The hottest new programming language is English. — Andrej Karpathy
You can write anything that you would be able to write on a server and put it onto the blockchain. — Vitalik Buterin
My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program. — Mark Zuckerberg
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. — Hal Abelson
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. — Ken Thompson
There was something amazingly enticing about programming. — Vinton Cerf
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. — Brian Kernighan
Writing Code Image Quotes
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
Writing Codes Quotes
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
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
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
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.
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
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. — Henry James Sumner Maine
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
Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.
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
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
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. — Larry Wall
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer. — Bill Gates
Writing Words Quotes
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words. — Victor Hugo
Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind. — Charles Capps
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. — James A. Michener
Write hard and clear about what hurts.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. — Aldous Huxley
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. — Cole Porter
I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired. — Lucille Clifton
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. — Jack Kerouac
I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise. — Richard Brautigan
When you write a song, most of the words you use are in black and white, and then, from time to time, you use one that’s in color. These words in color are a part of ourselves, because we give them a meaning. If you like, we give them a third dimension. — Jacques Brel
I can’t write five words but that I change seven. — Dorothy Parker
I use Mac. Not because it's more secure than everything else - because it is actually less secure than Windows - but I use it because it is still under the radar. People who write malicious code want the greatest return on their investment, so they target Windows systems. I still work with Windows in virtual machines. — Kevin Mitnick
The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it also depends on interpretation. It's very similar to how you grow a master plan: it's an objective document, but at the same time it is a lyrical document which allows through interpretation to become a harmonious work of art. — Daniel Libeskind
The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about. — Steve Jobs
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
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
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
Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader read three kinds of pattern at once; code moves the reader from a static to an active, interactive and looped domain; while algebraic topology allows us to read qualitative forms and their transformations. — Stephanie Strickland
The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code. — Douglas McIlroy
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. — Tom Van Vleck
A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it. — Nina Bawden
Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code. — Eric S. Raymond
Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway! — Jamie Zawinski
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
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
Advertising isnt just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data. — Jan Koum
Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design. — Joel Spolsky
It was the typical paranoid experience [to hide coke]. As soon as I knew my hiding place, I thought the whole world knew it. I'd write clues to my hiding places in code, then forget the code and spend the rest of the day looking for my coke. — George Carlin
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
The FBI wants Apple to write software code to help it break into the iPhone. Apple doesn't want to say this. Andrew Crocker, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF, a digital civil rights group, says the government can't make you say what you don't believe. He looks to a Supreme Court case that began in New Hampshire. — Laura Sydell
I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like. — Paul Buchheit
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
Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code. — Larry Wall
There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren't that good. The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren't interested in maintaining it. — Bill Joy
Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people. — Mike Davidson
A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code. — Bill Gates
Our tax code becomes so absurdly complex every 32 years that we have no choice but to scrap it and re-write. The 32-year period is up in 2018. So the time has come. History tells us that we're going to produce a fairer, simpler tax code by 2018. — T.R. Reid
I put all those synthesizer sounds behind "Decoy" and "Code M.D." A lot of things we write together. A lot of things are his, but they don't have that thing I want on the bottom. I often tell him, I say, "Bobby [Irving], if there's a melody, there's another one somewhere that goes with it." — Miles Davis
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
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
Apple doesn't have to write code, which equals speech, when it doesn't agree with what the government wants to do. And it's not that the government can't make you do anything you don't want to do. — Laura Sydell
Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded board so I could see it. — Rebecca Miller
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