Xavier Niel Quotes

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

I was a programmer.

I'm really good at making software for publishing.

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

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

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

Code writers, they are my idols.

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

I am a programmer.

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

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

When you learn to code, it opens up for you to learn many other things.

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.

We're the toolmakers. Our developers are the real creative geniuses.

I grew up as a computer scientist, and I've always been fascinated by algorithms.

Developers, developers, developers, developers.

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.

Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

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

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

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

If people want to code, and they want to be entrepreneurs, there's opportunities for them to do that.

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

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.