Michael Palin Quotes

Epic started out with scripting languages in the first generation of the Unreal engine in 1998. I wrote that. There's a place in my heart that comes along with the simplicity of programming in a scripting language.

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

I am a programmer.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

I'd always thought that if Python was going to go on at all, it'd be nice to get into storylines.

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

It doesn't cost anything to replicate code. So the companies that make code, that's why they've done so well. We take it for granted now, but why is it that code is free? It's because somebody built this self-replicating process.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

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

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

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.

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

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 understand what scripting and programming is, but do I know how to do it? Not really. But, I think that even knocking on the door allows you to understand a little bit of that kind of stuff. Mainly what 'Silicon Valley' has taught me, in that respect, is the business side of it, with that gold rush element as opposed to creating software.

One of the first major programming projects that I worked on when I was growing up in Ireland, back just coding by myself, was a programming language. Then I spent a bunch of time working on a new web framer. Just back-end things to make it easier to go in and build things on top of, do other development.

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

When we're building tools, we respect developers' complete creative freedom. It can be used for the development for anything that's legal.

Yeah, I love Ethereum. I love coding.

As technologists, we all write code.

I don't like programming. It's tedious.

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.