In my world, there are two types of programmers: those who program for the sake of programming, and everyone else. I’m only interested in the first group. The rest might do their job well but it will only ever be a job for them. I want the passion, the fury, the fire.
I ran across a good quote on the subject the other day that I want to share. It comes from the introduction to Stephen King’s “Skeleton Crew”.
All the same, you don’t do it for the money, or you’re a monkey. You don’t think of the bottom line, or you’re a monkey. You don’t think of it in terms of hourly wage, yearly wage, even lifetime wage, or you’re a monkey. In the end you don’t even do it for love, although it would be nice to think so. You do it because to not do it is suicide.