'I've met people who are the most brilliant programmers, but they make things that never see the light of day because nobody else can work with these people.' 'If a team had 200 coders and only 25 were true stars, 'fire the 175 troops' and leave the 25 rock stars alone to get the work done.' but in reality, a truly useful programmer is one who makes a code base smaller, elegantly removing duplication, the junk DNA of an app.' When they write, it's guided by years of pattern recognition: They've seen this sort of array-sorting problem, and know the most elegant way to address it.'

But the more experienced programmer ponders the problem they're trying to solve, the task the code is supposed to do. 'Inexperienced programmers dive in and start devising their code on the screen they mistake the length of the program, the act of writing lines, with productivity. 'It's not uncommon for coders to come in whenever they want, work till two in the morning, work as long as you get the work done.' programmers were avid problem solvers crazy about finding the answers to problems and solving all sorts of puzzles, including all forms of mathematical and mechanical activities.' 'When code gets particularly lengthy … coders are usually encouraged to leave little comments in their code that explain exactly what the heck is going on, so that some poor soul years hence will have guidance in sifting through the thicket.' The bug was caused by a single incorrect character.' 'In one of the most famous bugs in history, NASA was forced to low up its Mariner 1 spacecraft only minutes after launch when it became clear that a bug was causing it to veer off course and possibly crash in a populated area. 'When a developer thought that he or she has stamped out all the bugs, the users will find new ones.

(That certainly isn't true of surgery, law or aerospace engineering).' 'The field of software can appear more democratically accessible than many other fields, because it's one where self-taught amateurs work alongside people with PhDs. I believe the above describes most programmers out there. The benefits of refactoring are smaller code base and faster calculation. I made refactoring a part of the routine after the codes are completed. You should always be refactoring it, it should look like you've been working on it, when people see it.' by Bram Cohen, the man who invented BitTorrent.

'I tell people, you always take pride in your code. If you watch coders at work (and I've watched them for hours), they're most often just sitting there, frowning at the screen … and then breaking into a tight smile when they make some small, tiny, incremental progress.' 'For decades, TV and film directors always depicted coding as an act of frenetic, mad typing- the software pouring out of the programmer in an ecstatic flow. I could relate to the events mentioned in the book on many occasions.

Coders by clive thompson