Brian Behlendorf Quotes

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

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

I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

Computer programming is pretty much guaranteed income. I'm good at it, and I like it.

I was a programmer.

I think the best developers can learn any language; if they are a good developer, they can learn whatever. But the raw talent, the ability to learn it and do it and demonstrate the ability is helpful.

I don't like programming. It's tedious.

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

It would've been amazing [to work as programmer]. You're good at numbers, you're good with people, you like to wear shorts in the summertime.

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

Programming today is the opposite of diamond mining. In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt.

I am a programmer.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

I have the ability to get code done, but I'm impatient, and it's scrappy as a result. Maybe that helped me with 'Minecraft,' as it came quickly. But, well, at some point, I'd like to actually become a good programmer.

My dad grew up as a computer programmer, so he always had random computer software, and I started opening up editing software at age 12 and figuring out how to build websites.

Teaching someone to program is like giving them a superpower.

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.