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Quotes About Development

No matter what, the way to learn to program is to write code and rewrite it and see it used and rewrite again. Reading other people's code is invaluable as well.
~ Brian Kernighan
A lot of people look at a basketball team as an anchor tenant for an arena. I look at an arena as the anchor tenant for a much larger program.
~ Ross Perot, Jr.
The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme.
~ Hassanal Bolkiah
When you are coaching an international team, you are running a programme for 12 months of the year. You get to influence peoples' careers.
~ Mickey Arthur
We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.
~ Mariella Frostrup
I am a programmer.
~ Ken Thompson
I am a programmer. If I write code, I don't evaluate the results by what I hope the code will be. I evaluate it by what happens when I compile it. I evaluate it by results.
~ Brianna Wu
To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accommodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.
~ Ellen Ullman
I wasn't the best UI programmer, but I know to use the interface and that stuff. It's definitely given me a leg up in terms of being able to talk to the people in the games industry.
~ Masi Oka
Whether you're looking at manufacturing and the use of robotics or the knowledge industries, they need computer programmers.
~ Asa Hutchinson
In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.
~ Eric S. Raymond
The world of programmers is not going to change on its own.
~ Ellen Ullman
I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
~ Brian Eno
Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
We have to diversify our economy. We have to create jobs. We have to focus on education, more training programmes.
~ Ali Bongo Ondimba
I'm in the factory a lot so I see how hard the guys work, but you never really know how quickly and effectively the other teams' development programmes are going until you get to the track. It's only then that we will be able to tell.
~ Nico Hulkenberg
There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
~ Vint Cerf
Marketing is the obverse of programming.
~ John McAfee
I started programming before even being in school.
~ Alexandra Elbakyan
I didn't do programming language stuff in college at all.
~ James Gosling
There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.
~ Dave Winer
It's very hard to explain to people who don't program, but the object-oriented programming system made programming the Mac and iPhone so easy.
~ James H. Clark
I started taking programming lessons at the age of 10.
~ Ritesh Agarwal
I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.
~ Linus Torvalds