Jesse James Garrett Quotes

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.

The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

The process of software development doesn't feel any better than it did a generation ago.

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

I was a programmer.

Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

I am a programmer.

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.

I designed and developed an unbelievable number of applications early in my life.

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages.

I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

You can’t really understand the challenges involved with any major tech project until you start trying to build it.

It's something special being able to build a program up.

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.

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

I think everyone should learn how to code.

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

Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related? What is the linking thread which gathers these disparate branches into a single discipline. My answer to these questions is simple -it is the art of programming a computer. It is the art of designing efficient and elegant methods of getting a computer to solve problems, theoretical or practical, small or large, simple or complex. It is the art of translating this design into an effective and accurate computer program.

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'm really good at making software for publishing.

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.