Top 110 Developers Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Developers Quotes from famous people such as Tim Sweeney, Susan Orlean, Balaji Srinivasan, Randy Pitchford, Reggie Fils-Aime, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Epic's Support-A-Creator program was launched as a one-

Epic’s Support-A-Creator program was launched as a one-time event, but it’s now permanent and is available to all creators and all developers on the Epic Games store.
Tim Sweeney
I’ve loved some gadgets that were not worthy, and I’ve loved gadgets that I would have loved more if I had waited for their developers to figure out how to really make them work, but I loved them anyway.
Susan Orlean
There’s a tiny number of Bitcoin wizards and an enormous number of smart developers that have no onramp to Bitcoin. We need to make that onramp easier.
Balaji Srinivasan
I wonder if too frequently publishers and developers are so caught up with going after new, untapped audiences that they can forget to care for the largest, most loyal and reliable audience there is – the current gamer.
Randy Pitchford
We are so fortunate that our IP has been so effective out in the marketplace that every time there’s a new iteration, our developers feel a sense of pressure.
Reggie Fils-Aime
For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.
Olaf Carlson-Wee
The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected.
Gale Norton
VK is famous for its competitions among third-party developers who build alternative versions of VK on its open API.
Pavel Durov
Sun’s role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much more for systems programmers, not enterprise developers.
John Fowler
Ultimately, going into the consumer market, we really need outstanding content. That was the goal: if we can get the developer kit out at a low enough cost point, then hopefully a lot of developers would show up and start creating content.
Brendan Iribe
As a former Apollo astronaut, I think it’s safe to say that SpaceX and the other commercial developers embody the 21st century version of the Apollo frontier spirit.
Rusty Schweickart
Today, Web services is really about developing for the server. What it means to developers is any set of systems services that you make a Web service you to access by any kind of device with a highly interactive client, not just a browser.
John Fowler
We must stop tax giveaways to rich corporations and developers while our schools are crumbling and people are losing their homes.
Rashida Tlaib
Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive!
Trip Hawkins
AIR grew out of our early thinking about rich Internet applications around 2001. We started to see web developers pushing the boundaries of what could be done inside the browser and taking advantage of Flash in ways that we hadn’t expected.
Kevin Lynch
One of the biggest problems that software developers face is that technology changes rapidly. It is very hard to stay current.
Vivek Wadhwa
We have seen a lot of interest from Chinese developers on Google Play because the extent to which Android is used. If we can figure out a model by which we can serve those users, it would be a privilege to do so. So I don’t think of China as a black hole.
Sundar Pichai
Too many developers still treat cultural strategies as a fig leaf to get planning permission, rather than make a thoughtful, genuine commitment to the cultural life of their areas.
Munira Mirza
There is a bit of arrogance with ‘Hollywood’ types that doesn’t sit well with game developers.
Wesley Snipes
There is a strong movement towards increased accountability for software developers and software development organizations.
Kent Beck
To avoid long-term deleterious effects, game developers must commit to stop facilitating a culture in which crunch is the norm. The occasional long night or weekend at the office can be useful and even exhilarating, but as a constant, it is damaging.
Jason Schreier
I think there’s this tradition of a culture of NDAs that has spanned all the way back to the ’70s and ’80s when game developers where very paranoid about cloning and people copying one another’s ideas and business sabotage.
Jason Schreier
When you’re external to a publisher, most independent developers live on paranoia. The mainstay of every day is paranoia – every indie company believes their publisher in some way has these Machiavellian plans that will cause disaster for the game and the studio.
Peter Molyneux
A very important part of game development is testing – something that a lot of developers don’t do.
Randy Pitchford
What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual state of change as we live in its idealist manufactured dream, built by developers.
John Van Hamersveld
The Web is not a prize to be won, and Mr. Ballmer’s attitude is deplorable in the light of what the Web means to the world, to users, to designers and developers, and – to put it into Microsoft parlance – customers.
Molly Holzschlag
I’ve had the tremendous fortune to work on games like ‘Life is Strange’ and ‘Horizon Zero Dawn’, where there was a lot of collaboration between me and the developers.
Ashly Burch
I did my degree in journalism, and I then went on to being a games journalist, reviewing and previewing games and writing about the industry, visiting and interviewing developers.
Rhianna Pratchett
As mayor of Milwaukee, I’ve had many developers come and many businesses come and have asked for financial assistance from the city, and my questions have always been: how many jobs are we talking about and are these family-supporting jobs.
Tom Barrett
We’re passing milestones all the time on the amount of money our community developers are making. And we’re seeing developers that are making $250,000 a year.
David Baszucki
When lots of stores compete, the result is a combination of better prices for you, better deals for developers, and more investment in new content and innovation.
Tim Sweeney
The single most important thing for any processor is ge

The single most important thing for any processor is getting adoption by software developers.
Jensen Huang
IE6 was a bad experience for consumers, but it was a terrible for developers. Not only it was technically bad, but it was closed, and you couldn’t do much with it.
Mitchell Baker
Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat.
Mike Davidson
Increasingly, the real estate developers can’t get bank loans for their project financing in China. They’re now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent.
James Chanos
When the DS was first announced, our focus really was on communicating to consumers and to developers the innovation that’s in that unit: two screens, a touch screen, voice activation.
Reggie Fils-Aime
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
Joseph Wood Krutch
People get really attached to it: many of our players have played for four to five years, and our developers range in age from eight to 80. Some of the top developers are 18 or 20, and we have kids in high-school who are making two, three or four thousand dollars a month.
David Baszucki
When we’re building tools, we respect developers’ complete creative freedom. It can be used for the development for anything that’s legal.
Tim Sweeney
The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more ‘rested’ when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling.
Clive Thompson
Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
Kapil Sibal
The decision to join Stripe and run ‘Increment’ was a pretty easy one for me: It was an opportunity to be impactful, to collect and share best practices from the most effective engineering teams in the world. ‘Increment’ is a step toward flattening the distance between the Silicon Valley elite and developers everywhere.
Susan Fowler
Urban renewal always happens as a symphony of events, and part of the symphony is innovative, optimistic developers with the ability and willingness to transform historic properties.
Dan Gilbert
Whether it’s developers or industry veterans on the business side, top talent likes to work together.
Brendan Iribe
We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?
Jesse Schell
‘Fowl Space’ was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in the middle of all that ink and crumpled paper, a chicken in a space helmet was born and thus we have ‘Fowl Space.’
Rob Manuel
My belief is that if there are already games that other developers are putting out that are satisfying to the player, with great action or an excellent story, then I desire to create something different – a different type of experience.
Yoko Taro
Social gaming is not something Zuckerberg could have imagined back when he was creating Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004. The change began in May 2007, when Facebook announced it would let outside developers create applications that run on top of Facebook.
Daniel Lyons
Microsoft has no SQL Server developers. We have only Azure developers.
Satya Nadella