Coding is when we carefully write down our solution to a problem.

(Manager pushes paper, pen and a list of problems in front of you and demands, “Now write, just write! And fast!”)

Coding is the 5 minute result for an hour of thinking.

Oh, that must be fun to be hired by the client directly... I wish each my programming job was not an ivory tower :(

So the only anecdote you could find from your long career is one example at the start of your contracting? What the hell with all those low quality shite talking about code this, code that?

> Founder of Codemanship Ltd and code craft coach and trainer

Ooh, it’s all coming together.

This is one reason I always roll my eyes when people talk about how vim keyboard bindings are so great because you don't have to move your fingers from the home row. The actual action of typing text is a small part of the process of coding.

E.W. Dijkstra: "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight".

Personally, I think, much of the art of programming is to do as much as possible with as few lines of code as possible.