Programmer Productivity Quotes

My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the primary purpose of Ruby language.

If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.

I've never been one of those programmers that works effectively on short amounts of sleep. I've always needed eight hours.

Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.

A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity.

It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.

We try to continually push ourselves to do more and more, not just on the hardware side but also in terms of developers' tools so they can take advantage of the hardware that's there, in the best way.