Quotes by Software Developers

The quickest methods aren't always the fastest methods
Gordon Beeming
In the Information Age, the first step to sanity is FILTERING. Filter the information: extract for knowledge.Filter first for substance. Filter second for significance. These filters protect against advertising.Filter third for reliability. This filter protects against politicians.Filter fourth for completeness. This filter protects against the media.
Marc Stiegler
If it hurts, do it more frequently, and bring the pain forward.
Jez Humble
Health and programming should go together like a horse and carriage. You can't have one without the other. In our sedentary office work, we often forget that an absence of health is as bad as a lack of programming skills.
Staffan Noteberg
Sad-looking brown eyes, they wrenched his heart like a gut punch. Worse – hell, worse – a bloke could punch him in the head but he’d stay up, and grin through the bloody split lip, intimidating his attacker; but there was no honour in wounds inside, wounds that only you could deal with.
Karl Drinkwater
The Sophisticate: “The world isn’t black and white. No one does pure good or pure bad. It’s all gray. Therefore, no one is better than anyone else.”The Zetet: “Knowing only gray, you conclude that all grays are the same shade. You mock the simplicity of the two-color view, yet you replace it with a one-color view….
Marc Stiegler
People aren't happy because they're successful. They're successful because they're happy.
Jeff Sutherland
First we crawl. Later we crawl on broken glass.
Scott Meyers
I didn't even notice that my shoes were full of mud by the time I reached the rocky shore. There was ragged yellow police tape tied to some branches, dancing in the wind. It was as if the tape was waving, welcoming me back to place where I would have died.
Richard P. Denney
I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others.
Richard P. Denney
I think you’ve forgotten that this place holds a lot more than justbetraying Hobgoblins. Call upon the spirits, summon fairies, raise thedead! My brother, you have the power to do so--now get off of your buttand use it!
Richard P. Denney
Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.
Richard P. Denney
That doesn't upset too many people, but the fact that accessibility restrictions don't enter into the picture has caused more than one otherwise pacifistic soul to contemplate distinctly unpacifistic actions.
Scott Meyers
That doesn't upset too many people, but the fact that accessibility restrictions don't enter into the picture has caused more than one otherwise pacifistic soul to contemplate distinctly unpacifistic actions.
Scott Meyers
Persist. Practice. Experiment. Imagine. Do your best work, and all else will follow.
Sandi Metz
I believe that everyone should have a dream and believe in it. Make it real, bring it to life. You'll never regret trying. Trying is what strengthens your heart and delivers courage. Once you believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.
Richard P. Denney
I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book.
Richard P. Denney
The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to go, and laugh at the people who take it seriously.
Richard P. Denney
A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.
Richard P. Denney
Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.
Richard P. Denney