Besides being a great painter and TV personality, "Uncle" Bob Ross was also a talented software developer.
These are of the things he said about software development.
“Gotta give him a
friendmerge request. Like I always say, ‘Everyone needs afriendmerge request.’”
“There’s nothing wrong with having
a treecode as afriendmerge request.”
“Talk to the
treecode, makefriendsmerge requests with it.”
“In nature, dead
treescode are just as normal as livetreescode.”
“Isn’t it fantastic that you can change your mind and create all these
happyhacked things?”
“We don’t make mistakes. We just have
happyhacked accidents.”
“It’s so important to do something every day that will make you
happyhack.”
“This is
happyhacky place; littlesquirrelsbugs live here and play.”
“You can do anything here — the only prerequisite is that it makes you
happyhack.”
“We tell people sometimes: We’re like drug dealers, come into town and get everybody absolutely addicted to
paintingprogramming.
“If I
paintprogram something, I don’t want to have to explain what it is.”
“
PaintingProgramming will bring a lot of good thoughts to your heart.”
“We want
happy paintingsto hack programs. If you want sad things, watch the news.”
“Every day is a good day when you
paintprogram.”
“You have to allow the
paintprogram to break to make it beautiful.”
“I think each of us, sometime in our life, has wanted to
paint a pictureprogram an app.”
“You too can
paintprogram almightypicturesapps.”
“I taught my son to
paint mountainsprogram repositories like these, and guess what? Now hepaintsprograms the best darnmountainsrepositories in the industry.”
“In
paintingprogramming, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to movemountainsrepositories. But when I get home, the only thing I have power over is the garbage.”
“We
artistsdevelopers are a different breed of people. We’re ahappyhacky bunch.”
“I think there’s an
artistdeveloper hidden at the bottom of every single one of us.”
“Find freedom on this
canvasIDE.”
“Make love to the
canvasIDE.”
“The secret to doing
anythingdevelopment is believing that you can do it. ”
“Talent is a pursued interest.
AnythingDevelopment that you’re willing to practice, you can do.”
“They say everything looks better with odd numbers of things. But sometimes I put even numbers — just to upset the
criticspeer reviewers.”
“Remember how free clouds are. They just lay around in
the skysomebody else's servers all day long.”
“It’s
lifesoftware development process. It’s interesting. It’s fun.”
“Don’t forget to tell these special people in your
lifesoftware development process just how special they are to you.”
“You can have anything you want in the
worldbrowser — once you help everyone around you get what they want.”
“You can do anything you want to do. This is your
worldbrowser.”
“Just let go — and fall like a little waterfall.”
“We don’t really know where this goes — and I’m not sure we really care.”
“If you do too much, it’s going to lose its effectiveness.”
“Anytime you learn, you gain.”
“However you think it should be, that’s exactly how it should be.”