Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.
A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
Not only are we reading life code, we're beginning to copy it through cloning, and we're beginning to write, and in the measure that we do that, boy, you can build a lot of very powerful companies in a short period of time.
It seemed really amazing that you could write a few lines of code and have it learn to do interesting things.
At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.
I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.
Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.
You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.
I'm not an activist. I'm a filmmaker. I'm a dramatist. My strength is to tell a story, to find a way to tell a story that makes it exciting. Our Untold History was a huge challenge. Snowden was no piece of cake, because writing code and breaking code is some of the most boring stuff you've ever seen.
It was the typical paranoid experience [to hide coke]. As soon as I knew my hiding place, I thought the whole world knew it. I'd write clues to my hiding places in code, then forget the code and spend the rest of the day looking for my coke.
If we're trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can't write every line of code. I can't write any lines of 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.
I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
No matter what, the way to learn to program is to write code and rewrite it and see it used and rewrite again. Reading other people's code is invaluable as well.
Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.
Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.
It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.
Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.
Teaching someone to program is like giving them a superpower.
I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.
As technologists, we all write code.
