Casey Kasem Quotes

Building the machine for 'Speed' was fun, as was working on the 'Spitfire' programme. They are programmes I enjoyed being on, but they are not my job.

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

I would be better at my job if I were technical.

It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created.

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

I love computer programmers. They have a very beautiful definition of complexity as 'the capacity to transmit the maximum information with the minimum data'.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

I enjoy evangelizing Java. In my heart of hearts, I'm an engineer, and what makes me happy is building something that works and having someone use it. That's cool.

Depending on the kind of code you write, depending on the kind of ideas you have, you can be creative in problem-solving and you can really make things work in a very gratifying way.

Perl programming is an *empirical* science!

I kind of 'code-sketch,' where I get started with a project by actually writing the code for it and getting something up on the screen. Then I play around with it and see if it's any fun and change the parts that aren't.

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

Coming from a programming background, I have a good sense of what's feasible and what's not feasible in a game.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

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

I was a programmer.

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

As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.

People sometimes have a view of programming that is something solitary and very technical. But programming is among the most creative, expressive, and social careers.

I'm a designer, but I rely on programmers to bring my ideas to life. By learning to code myself, I think I can make things easier for all of us. Similarly, I want to be able to build things on my own without having to bother a programmer.