Richard Stallman Quotes

I am a programmer.

I was a programmer.

The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

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

Java is C++ without the guns, clubs and knives.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

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

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

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.

The word 'code' turns out to be a really important word for my book, 'The Information.' The genetic code is just one example. We talk now about coders, coding. Computer guys are coders. The stuff they write is code.

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

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.

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.

If software's the only thing in your bag of tools, I'm not going to give you great odds.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

Code writers, they are my idols.

I don't program, so I don't belong in Silicon Valley. If I did belong in Silicon Valley, I'd be there creating a revolutionary compression algorithm for billions of dollars.

I'm not afraid of code. I mean, I understand how these things work. I thought that that was the one area where Estonia was playing on a level playing field.

I don't program or code or anything like that.

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

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.

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.