Computer programming is to what they do as typing is to what a novelist does.

When was the last time you heard someone say 'I need a piece of software in 10 minutes?

Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Being able to extend jQuery, whether by adding your own functions, CSS selectors or full- blown plugins, makes you a much stronger and smarter developer.

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.