Coders Quotes

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

A coder will be the next rock star.

It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.

Design adds value faster than it adds cost.

For all the folks getting excited about my quotes. Here is another - Yes, I am a terrible coder, but I am probably still better than you :)

It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.

While I wouldn't object to work at a restaurant or a different place that sells decent-or-better food, I think that I can learn much more by becoming a coder.

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.

I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.

If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.

Great coders are today’s rock stars.