Top 44 Developer Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Developer Quotes from famous people such as David Cohen, John Carmack, Zoe Quinn, Fred Ehrsam, Benedict Cumberbatch, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I think the best developers can learn any language; if

I think the best developers can learn any language; if they are a good developer, they can learn whatever. But the raw talent, the ability to learn it and do it and demonstrate the ability is helpful.
David Cohen
If I’m an entrepreneur and I have an idea, and I don’t have the development talent around me but I need to find a developer, I would do my selection just like I would with hiring an employee.
David Cohen
I don’t think anyone is going to say great things about being a native developer on Android.
John Carmack
I’m an independent game developer – there’s not exactly an offline version of that. This is where my community is; everybody I’m close to I know because of the Internet.
Zoe Quinn
Developer mindshare is the most important thing to have in digital currency.
Fred Ehrsam
I’ve been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I’ve suddenly realised it is one of life’s joys.
Benedict Cumberbatch
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
We at Interscope put projects out with anyone we believe has a great idea and is a true talent, whether it’s a musician, photographer, software developer, or technology innovator.
Jimmy Iovine
I’m not a real estate developer. I’m a golfer. I’m a sportsman.
Bob McNair
I guess people feel like they kind of know me. The game developer me, or the Twitter persona, that’s Notch. It’s a censored version. The real me is Markus.
Markus Persson
There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician. I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades. I’m a developer of the technology.
Robert Jarvik
Now with our Software Developer Kit (SDK), any developer can embed Emotion AI into the apps, games, devices, and digital experiences they are building, so that these can sense human emotion and adapt. This approach is rapidly driving more ubiquitous use of Emotion AI across a number of different industries.
Rana el Kaliouby
More than just music, the splash of water or a lone footstep can put you in the moment. Sound is just another tool in the developer’s toolbox to draw the player further into the game.
Rob Manuel
In 1999, I was running my first tech start-up and learning the Unreal Engine, the tool that would define my career as a game developer, when news of Columbine ground all work to a standstill.
Brianna Wu
We continue to see more and more of that – games we didn’t necessarily know would work in VR until a developer goes in and discovers the game mechanic that makes it come together. Sure enough, hockey can be a great VR experience.
Brendan Iribe
I think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms and for whom economic restraints won’t apply.
Helmut Jahn
By the year 2020, we envision our group to be the largest hotel developer in the Philippines, with a total portfolio of around 12,000 hotel rooms.
Andrew Tan
There is nothing that Bitcoin can do which Ethereum can’t. While Ethereum is less battle-tested, it is moving faster, has better leadership, and has more developer mindshare.
Fred Ehrsam
I think I was a late developer because I’d been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn.
Cornelia Parker
There’s not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.
Curt Schilling
Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it.
John Updike
I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, ‘Whatever you do, don’t shave,’ and I hadn’t really started shaving. I remember rubbing the soot from a kettle on to my bumfluff to make it look more like I had a beard.
Rory McCann
I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It’s not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity.
Ray Dolby
Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.
Kent Beck
While I’m confident in Obsidian being able to deliver a quality title, it only takes one other Kickstarter developer to ruin things for everyone else and cast doubt on the donation process going forward.
Chris Avellone
I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California.
Gene Luen Yang
We are a game developer ourselves, and we built everything we need for our games. We share everything we built, including our game engine.
Tim Sweeney
An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.
Linus Torvalds
I was a late developer.
Adam Lallana
I was an independent developer and started Junction Point in January of 2005.
Warren Spector
I was 25 before I joined the world, in my opinion. I was a very late developer, and everything came late.
Deirdre O’Kane
While most game developers are focused entirely on what

While most game developers are focused entirely on what they’re shipping in a year or two, a technology developer like Epic has to look much further out and plan many years ahead.
Tim Sweeney
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Bill Vaughan
I’m a bit of a late developer, generally. But the good thing about being a filmmaker is you still count as young all the way through your 40s.
Lenny Abrahamson
You always have groups that want to come after the big bad developer. They don’t want to see anything done. Don’t disturb a blade of grass; just freeze the world in time. It validates them.
Eric Trump
Being an app developer isn’t at all like working at Apple. There is this huge haystack of apps, and even a very shiny needle can get lost in that haystack.
Bill Atkinson
I’m a late developer in everything. I have a fast mind and fast metabolism, and I’m an intense worker, but in terms of life development, I’m way behind.
Richard C. Armitage
We have only one Windows. We don’t have multiple Windows. They run across multiple form factors, but it’s one developer platform, one store, one tool chain for developers. And you adapt it for different screen sizes and different input and output.
Satya Nadella
This is a whole new world to explore as a developer to go in and learn these new gameplay mechanics, to learn what it’s like to actually control a character from a top-down, ‘God’s eye’ view, and to figure out how the game camera can be controlled by the player’s head.
Brendan Iribe
Today there are hundreds of millions of mobile devices, but you do have to know a bit about what each device is capable of doing in order to approach it as a developer.
John Fowler
As a developer, it’s a great feeling knowing you have made an impact. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes with that: you have to really put the city’s needs first. It’s not all about making money.
Stephen M. Ross
For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die.
Matt Mullenweg
I am energized by the diverse, talented and energetic culture here at Vivaldi, so I am beyond excited to get started in my new role in developer relations.
Molly Holzschlag
My mother – who’s from Iowa – owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father’s a developer. And my musical influences, I think, came from my father’s side of the family.
Keri Hilson