Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.

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

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

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

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.

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

Code writers, they are my idols.

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.

I am a programmer.

I'm really good at making software for publishing.

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

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

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.

There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.

I know one business, and that's how to make software.

My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.

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.

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.

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

As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.

No matter what, the way to learn to program is to write code and rewrite it and see it used and rewrite again. Reading other people's code is invaluable as well.

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