If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.
I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.
Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
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.
A coder will be the next rock star.
Great coders are today’s rock stars.
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
Design adds value faster than it adds cost.
I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.
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.
For instance, I assume those "carrots" we have on our keyboards were there originally to express "greater than" and "less than. " Then they were adopted by coders, and now they show up all the time in the way email addresses are constructed. At least I think that's what happened.
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.
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.
See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.
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 :)
