Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.

I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.

C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.

Programming language is very specific to instructing a computer to do a particular structure of a sequence. It's the very way you tell the machine what you want it to do.

So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff out of em and put some of it into what was then called en, which was really ed with some em features.

Programming is usually taught by examples.

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.

I am a programmer.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

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

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

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

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Whether you draw diagrams that generate code or you type at a browser, you are coding.

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.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

Developers, developers, developers...

Developers, developers, developers, developers.

Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.

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.

We don't know how to actually code, but I wish that I did. It's so much harder than anyone could possibly imagine - it's like learning German.