Computers Quote by Bill Gates

Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and…

— Bill Gates

I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

— Orson Welles

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

— Andy Weir

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

— Linus Torvalds

“The people most likely to grasp that wealth can be created are the ones who are good at making things, the craftsmen. Their hand-made…

— Paul Graham

When programming was my hobby, I thought that programming would be the perfect job. Now I program for a living and build boats for…

— Ron Porter

The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that…

— Matt Mullenweg

Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important…

— Linus Torvalds

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

— Jimmy Wales

People sometimes have a view of programming that is something solitary and very technical. But programming is among the most creative, expressive, and social…

— Craig Federighi

The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and you have…

— John Carmack