Programming Quotes
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Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.
Dave Cutler
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Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.
Nicholas Negroponte
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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.
Bill Gates
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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.
Michael Shermer
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Programming in Go is like being young again (but more productive!).
Anneli Jaatteenmaki
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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.
Erik Naggum
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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.
Stephen Wolfram
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I skip through the programming to watch the commercials.
Mel Karmazin
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Programming is usually taught by examples.
Niklaus Wirth
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Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.
Niklaus Wirth
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I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Ray Bradbury
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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.
Neil Newhouse
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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.
Rhianna Pratchett
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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.
Bob DuPuy
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There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program.
Edward Yourdon
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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.
Gerald Jay Sussman
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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.
Gary Kildall
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You know, I've never accidentally drilled a hole in myself while programming.
Karl Lehenbauer
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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.
Keith Braithwaite
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I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.
Rasmus Lerdorf