Computer Quote by Jeff Atwood Download Open image “We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.” — Jeff Atwood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computer Optimization Programmers Programming Software engineering Users
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it! — John Carmack Copy Share Image
Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy… — Damian Conway Copy Share Image
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
If you don't have people that care about usability on your project, your project is doomed. — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
“Don't be the guy telling everyone what to do. Be the guy asking all the questions.” — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
“Success is rarely determined by the quality of your ideas. But it is frequently determined by the quality of your execution.” — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the… — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to use -… — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
“Build what you need as you need it, aggressively refactoring as you go along; don't spend a lot of time planning for grandiose, unknown… — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I… — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
“most developers don't test at all! They key in a few values at random and click a few buttons. If they don't get any unhandled… — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
You can achieve a shallow local maximum with A/B testing - but you'll never win hearts and minds. — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
“When given a choice, choose the thing that scares you a little. If it's 100% safe, it is holding you back.” — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
“We should always be in pursuit of simplicity, in whatever form it takes.” — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
I'm from the South, so I'm very old-fashioned and I'm not very computer savvy at all, but I'm getting it. I understand that, if… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
A little bit more than 50% of what you see on screen is handcrafted and the other 50% was about emulating these textures on… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
Well I'm trying to think what I put in... I think I put in 'why?' to see if I'd confuse the computer. — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same. — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
