Shawn Fanning Quotes

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

I am a programmer.

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

Programming language is very specific to instructing a computer to do a particular structure of a sequence. It's the very way you tell the machine what you want it to do.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

I am a programmer. If I write code, I don't evaluate the results by what I hope the code will be. I evaluate it by what happens when I compile it. I evaluate it by results.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked: needed to take them apart, make them better, and put them back together again.

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

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

C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.

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.

It's very hard to explain to people who don't program, but the object-oriented programming system made programming the Mac and iPhone so easy.

I don't program, so I don't belong in Silicon Valley. If I did belong in Silicon Valley, I'd be there creating a revolutionary compression algorithm for billions of dollars.

I love computer programmers. They have a very beautiful definition of complexity as 'the capacity to transmit the maximum information with the minimum data'.

I understand what scripting and programming is, but do I know how to do it? Not really. But, I think that even knocking on the door allows you to understand a little bit of that kind of stuff. Mainly what 'Silicon Valley' has taught me, in that respect, is the business side of it, with that gold rush element as opposed to creating software.

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

I worked as a programmer for 16 years.

Epic started out with scripting languages in the first generation of the Unreal engine in 1998. I wrote that. There's a place in my heart that comes along with the simplicity of programming in a scripting language.

I don't socialise. My social life is minus zero.

As technologists, we all write code.

Perl programming is an *empirical* science!