Safra A. Catz Quotes

After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

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

Phoenix Nights' was really starting to take off. But I was scared to leave my job in case things didn't work out.

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.

I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business.

I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human speak for our technicians. But our company was sold, and the atmosphere and the culture really changed, so I quit without having anything else lined up.

Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.

In September, I left the show. We were going through discussions and negotiations, and I had been on the show for about 11 years, and there were some things that I was asking for that I didn't feel were the moon or the stars.

If I quit surgery, I'd be afraid I'd dry up.

It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.

If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

I'm kind of a retired software engineer. I don't write code anymore.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

As long as I don't have to go back to the catering hall and wait tables anymore, I'm very happy.

I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.

I think when it comes to re-signing with an organisation, there's no real compromise if you're trying to move on.

I was working at Papa John's full-time. I had just quit my part-time job at UPS. I was there for two years.

Initially I took the job because I thought it would be really easy. I was like, I'll take the paycheck because I want to do my own movie. That didn't work out. In the first two weeks I fell in love with Kratos from an animation perspective; I'd never been able to do anything like this.

It was a hard decision to give up a normal job. I worked hard to get through school. You go from building a fire station to an eating contest.

Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.

[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

The most powerful sign is that your work no longer enchants you - it's not deep, delightful, and mutually satisfying. When this happens, it may be time to look for new challenges.