Mitchell Baker Quotes

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.

I am a programmer.

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.

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

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.

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.

Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks.

As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.

There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth.

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.

I was a programmer.

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

As technologists, we all write code.

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

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

I think everyone should learn how to code.

The Wesnoth devs are good but not exceptionally so, and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++). Nevertheless our productivity, in terms of goals achieved per hour of work, is quite high.

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.

C++ is a pile of crap.