Programming Quotes
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With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.
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In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.
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Programming is usually taught by examples.
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Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.
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Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.
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It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.
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The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.
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There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program.
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There's the underlying feeling that writing must be easy, because it's all about putting letters together. That's only true in the same way that programming is all about putting numbers together.
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I skip through the programming to watch the commercials.
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The ALGOL compiler was probably one of the nicest pieces of code to come out at that time. I spent hours trying to fix and change the compiler. Working with it so closely affected the way I think about programming and had a profound influence on my style.
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Programming in Go is like being young again (but more productive!).
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You know, I've never accidentally drilled a hole in myself while programming.
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I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.
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Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.
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We're important to ESPN. We fill up a lot of space for them in the summer. We're their programming in the summer. If you look at 'SportsCenter,' most nights in the summer, it's, what, 70 percent baseball.
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I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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The data shows pretty clearly that how voters watch video programming is dramatically changing and reinforces the need for political campaigns to better match their communications outreach efforts to the voters’ changing media habits.
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It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.
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Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.
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The reason why people think of programming as being hard is because you're writing down a general rule which is going to be used for lots of instances that a particular instance must process correctly.
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We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.
