Om Malik Quotes

People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now they want to make apps.

I'm an app creator.

One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test.

I am a programmer.

I'm really good at making software for publishing.

The process of software development doesn't feel any better than it did a generation ago.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

From an app point of view, if you looked at innovation on the PC, you'd be hard pressed to find companies innovating. The list is small.

First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.

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.

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.

Once you get over the hurdle of how to get something on the screen, it's not that difficult to make apps and share them with your friends.

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.

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

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

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

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages.

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

Our developers will make great games for whatever high-end platforms exist.

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.