Bill Joy Quotes

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

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 am a programmer.

Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.

Adding functionality is not just a matter of adding code.

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.

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.

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

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

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.

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

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

All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code.

Developers, developers, developers, developers.

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

I was a programmer.

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.

Coding - everyone thinks it's a superpower. And so when you feel like, 'I've learned how to code,' and you say to your mom or the girl sitting next to you, 'I know how that app is built, I know the logic behind how that was created' - that's powerful.

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

As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.

In software engineering, we have the term 'technical debt.' When you don't do a job correctly, unaddressed problems become harder and harder to solve.

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

As technologists, we all write code.