Programming Quotes

• Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity. These are not things you can overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule.

  

  Damian Conway
  • Always
  • Destructive
  • Schedule

• A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

  

  Paul Graham
  • Language
  • Programming
  • Pencil

• Linear programming can be viewed as part of a great revolutionary development which has given mankind the ability to state general goals and to lay out a path of detailed decisions to take in order to "best" achieve its goals when faced with practical situations of great complexity.

  

  George Dantzig
  • Goals
  • Development
  • Decisions

• Culture is the collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from others.

  

  Geert Hofstede
  • Mind
  • Culture
  • Programming

• If the system exhibits a structure which can be represented by a mathematical equivalent, called a mathematical model, and if the objective can be also so quantified, then some computational method may be evolved for choosing the best schedule of actions among alternatives. Such use of mathematical models is termed mathematical programming.

  

  George Dantzig
  • Models
  • Mathematical
  • Programming

• Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of the simplex method, optimal policy decisions for a broad class of practical decision problems of great complexity. In the real world, planning tends to be ad hoc because of the many special-interest groups with their multiple objectives.

  

  George Dantzig
  • Decisions
  • Complexity
  • Programming

• I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way.

  

  Rasmus Lerdorf
  • Language
  • Programming
  • Logical Step

• Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

  

  Stewart Alsop
  • Goal
  • Machine
  • Gates

• There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming.

  

  Rasmus Lerdorf
  • Programming
  • Don't Understand

• Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men.

  

  Gerald Weinberg
  • Learning
  • Genius
  • Ordinary

• I don't like programming. It's tedious.

  

  Rasmus Lerdorf
  • Programming
  • Tedious

• One principle problem of educating software engineers is that they will not use a new method until they believe it works and, more importantly, that they will not believe the method will work until they see it for themselves.

  

  Watts Humphrey
  • Principles
  • Software
  • Engineers

• The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.

  

  Chris Albrecht
  • Focus
  • Helping
  • Strategy

• Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

  

  Hayley Mills
  • Game
  • Golf
  • Programming

• In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you.

  

  Boris Beizer
  • Kill
  • Programming
  • Specifications

• I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.

  

  David Parnas
  • People
  • Reason
  • Missing

• With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

  

  Miguel de Icaza
  • Language
  • Available
  • Programming

• In the 1990s, as it began to feel the impact of cable news and syndicated infotainment programming, network evening newscasts became increasingly focused on tabloid crime and celebrity.

  

  Bill Kovach
  • Celebrity
  • Programming
  • Newscasts

• And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.

  

  Darl McBride
  • Language
  • Programming
  • Royalty

• Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.

  

  Mike Rogers
  • Healthy
  • Disgusting
  • Including

• Just as the cable revolution overturned broadcast, the net is destined to become the dominant mode of video, both in terms of transit and programming.

  

  Steven Levy
  • Video
  • Programming
  • Broadcast

• It's not the way Zane looks, David," she said, her voice trembling with anger. "It's because he makes me bubbly, and because we took a lot of risks together. It could just as easily be me lying there, and he would stay with me if it was." "It's just programming!" "No. It's because I love him.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Together
  • Risk
  • Looks

• The press is supposed to equip people to act as citizens and not just consumers of programming that happens to be news.

  

  David Folkenflik
  • People
  • Citizens
  • Consumers

• One of the interesting things about programming people of all sorts to be more ethical is that it also makes them more ethical about the limits of programming people to be ethical.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Limits
  • Programming
  • Interesting Things

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