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Developers, developers, developers, developers. -- Steve Ballmer
"Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers...." -- Steve Ballmer
Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures. -- Linus Torvalds
Developers need to start moving away from the entitled macho-male power fantasy in their games. They need to recognize that there are wider stories that they can tell. -- Anita Sarkeesian
I have been able to attend many technology conferences around the world over the years, including some of the largest, like Google I/O, Microsoft's Developer Conference, Apple's WorldWide Developers Conference, Oracle World, Le Web, and more. -- Megan Smith
I remember the first year at the Game Developers Conference I wore these big red giant knee-high boots. Nobody cared. You can wear anything you love, because that's what you do in games. You make yourself who you want to be. -- Jane McGonigal
Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas. -- Richard Stallman
Gamers are everywhere, coming in all ages and genders, and developers have grown up, too. -- Warren Spector
There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers. -- Wesley Snipes
We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers? -- Jesse Schell
Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers. -- David Hanson
One of the biggest problems that software developers face is that technology changes rapidly. It is very hard to stay current. -- Vivek Wadhwa
The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux. -- Linus Torvalds
Game studios, developers, and major publishers need to vocally speak up against the harassment of women and say this behavior is unacceptable. -- Anita Sarkeesian
Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are more epic. -- Jane McGonigal
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
We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers. -- James L. Barksdale
Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests. -- Linus Torvalds
I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen. -- Joni Mitchell
Somebody has to pay our editors, writers, journalists, designers, developers, and all the other specialists whose passion and tears go into every chunk of worthwhile web content. -- Jeffrey Zeldman
I think right now it's a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle. -- Steve Jobs
By allowing multiple partners to contribute, an open platform can nurture an entire ecosystem of developers and apps. Good products integrate and become great products. Users get a one-stop solution for social needs. -- Ryan Holmes
A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet. -- Eric S. Raymond
So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing. -- Alphonso Jackson
For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies and a regulatory process so slanted in favor of Big Oil that often permit reviews are simply waived. -- Chellie Pingree
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
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
Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
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
Facebook's data trove is enviable, and its moves into nearly every aspect of our lives - from payment to media, will create even more of it. The company also has created a huge base of developers for its platform, but the ecosystem is incomplete compared to vertically integrated OSes like iOS, Mac or Windows. -- John Battelle
We tend to think of Steam as tools for content developers and tools for producers. We're just always thinking: how do we want to make content developers' lives better and users' lives a lot better? With Big Picture Mode, we're trying to answer the question: 'How can we maximize a content developers' investment?' -- Gabe Newell
For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application. -- Mark Zuckerberg
Our developers will make great games for whatever high-end platforms exist. -- Mike Wilson
Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch. -- Eric S. Raymond
The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values. -- Edward Abbey
There is a strong movement towards increased accountability for software developers and software development organizations. -- Kent Beck
Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!" -- Will Wright
Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging. -- Eric S. Raymond
Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations! -- Will Wright
Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers. -- Bill Hayden
In short: developers do not give players enough credit. And maybe even players don't give players enough credit. -- Ragnar TÃ¸rnquist
IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is. -- Vernor Vinge
...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums. -- Steve Martin
Small developers can compete on creativity not on scale or staff size.... Nintendo is willing to help bring these ideas to life, -- Satoru Iwata
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 free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia. -- Evgeny Morozov
If the web can be evolved to include the missing APIs and have better performance, [developers] won't need to go beyond the web. -- Brendan Eich
It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created. -- Anders Hejlsberg
While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers. -- Bill Gates
Local councils are hostile to large developers and think that, by doing this, they are standing up for the community. But they're wrong. -- Harry Triguboff
I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client so far. -- Fumihiko Maki
Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects. -- Orison Swett Marden
They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go. -- Jose Gonzalez
We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers. -- James L. Barksdale
Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over. -- Hayao Miyazaki
The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think It's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted. -- Gabe Newell
I'd like to see an arrested growth of development. You can't stop it, but it's important we do something about the developers having the upper hand. -- John Murray
When I was young, we didn't have indie games. We had 'garage developers' or similar terms, who were just small teams making games out of passion. -- Markus Persson
Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey). -- Bill Kraus
This notion of universal Windows apps is a very powerful concept because we're now aggregating the 300-plus-million-socket run rate of Windows into one opportunity for our developers. -- Satya Nadella
My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents. -- Hakeem Jeffries
It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software. -- Nat Friedman
It may be that other developers are finding that their games play better on one platform over the other, so they're choosing to migrate to that platform. -- Sid Meier
I can mostly laugh at myself and this whole mess called "Linux developers," which means that I get along with most people and most people get along with me. -- Linus Torvalds
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
Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration. -- Ray Ozzie
One of the best strengtheners of character and developers of stamina ... is to assume the part you wish to play; to assert stoutly the possession of whatever you lack. -- Orison Swett Marden
Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks. -- Mitchell Baker
Games aren't created by writers rocking up to developers saying 'I have this great game story.' It's about establishing relationships and working hand in hand to create something wonderful. -- Rhianna Pratchett
Most website developers say an aggregator website, such as what healthcare.gov is, could be built easily for a half a million dollars. They have spent a half a billion dollars. -- Marsha Blackburn
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
The original dream of Facebook Platform was to enable developers to build experiences that were social at their core, like Facebook Photos, without having to build their own standalone social network. -- Joe Green
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
I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system. -- Theo de Raadt
On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?. -- Eric S. Raymond
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
The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they... they reinforce each other's skills. -- Bill Gates
No organization engaged in any specific field of work ever invents any important developers in that field, or adopts any important development in that field until forced to do so by outside competition. -- Reginald Fessenden
Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and aesthetic pleasure, seriously. We, their customers, demand it. -- Virginia Postrel
I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code. -- Richard Stallman
Clearly, private developers can have different aims, and architects can only play a certain role. You can have some pretty big battles on public commissions, too. The key is to have a good client. -- Richard Rogers
I think starting in anime, like I did, gave me a good idea of how to approach games that come from Japan. Japanese developers can be very different from companies here in the western market. -- Laura Bailey
In any market, in any country, there are developers who make money. So I say all of this doom and gloom, but there will always be people who make money, because people always want homes. -- Sarah Beeny

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