Developers Quotes - Page 2

• The value of a smile... It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None are so rich they can get along without it, and none so poor but are richer for its benefits. It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Happiness, Smile

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.67, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

  George Adair

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Time, Memories

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.73, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Code never lies, comments sometimes do.

  Ron Jeffries

  Lying, Sometimes, Programming

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• When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, Design, Brain

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.4, Vintage

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• Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

  Ray Ozzie

  Frustration, Technology, Challenges

  "Burden of the years weighs on Windows" by Steve Lohr and John Markoff, www.nytimes.com. March 26, 2006.

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• We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.

  James L. Barksdale

  Links, Partners, Beta

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• Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Good Work, Programming, Very Good

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.23, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are more epic.

  Jane McGonigal

  Fun, Epic, Games

  "TED 2010: Reality Is Broken. Game Designers Must Fix It". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. February 11, 2010.

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• The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

  Linus Torvalds

  Important, Linux, Customers

  "FM Interviews: Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates software developers". Interview with Rishabh Aiyer Ghosh, firstmonday.org. October 3, 2005.

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• The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they... they reinforce each other's skills.

  Bill Gates

  Writing, Skills, People

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• Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Debugging, Improvement, Programming

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.27, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Sleep, Insomnia, Ethical

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• Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!

  Will Wright

  Fans, Creation, Entertaining

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• Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application.

  Ted Nelson

  Use, Given, Prisoner

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• If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, People, Environmental

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• If the web can be evolved to include the missing APIs and have better performance, [developers] won't need to go beyond the web.

  Brendan Eich

  Missing, Needs, Performances

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• I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Cities, Way

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• On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.

  Satoru Iwata

  Business, Heart, Games

  "Nintendo CEO Iwata: 'In My Heart I Am A Gamer'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. July 13, 2015.

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• While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

  Bill Gates

  Ambition, Doe, Tools

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• The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours.

  Steve McConnell

  Teamwork, Jobs, Average

  Steve McConnell (1997). “Software Project Survival Guide”, p.45, Microsoft Press

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• I was a late developer and, at the age of 15, I almost thought of quitting football.

  Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

  Football, Age, Quitting

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• Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform.

  Jim Allchin

  Jobs, Order, Want

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• I'm the kind of developer who likes to throw lightning rods around. To make a great program there's got to be at least one person at the center who is breathing life into it. In a ferocious way.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Breathing, Way, Likes

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