Bram Cohen Quotes

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

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.

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.

I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

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

Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

I have the ability to get code done, but I'm impatient, and it's scrappy as a result. Maybe that helped me with 'Minecraft,' as it came quickly. But, well, at some point, I'd like to actually become a good programmer.

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.

I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

Computer programming is pretty much guaranteed income. I'm good at it, and I like it.

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.

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

From the point of view of the people who are using the platform, one of the most valuable things about Java is the consistency, the interoperability.

I didn't do programming language stuff in college at all.

The way that NetBeans is architected, it's not so much a tool as a tool environment.

Teaching someone to program is like giving them a superpower.