Coding Skill Quotes

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

Obviously solving the education problem is big and complex, and there's already so many failings, but coding is the new fluency. This is the most valuable skill of this century. If you want to be a founder of a company, and not even just a tech company, but like a founder of a company, because I'm telling you software is going to play a role.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.

An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.

I have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.

A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity.

Gender is not central to coding.