Best Programming Quotes

#1. Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.

Nicholas Negroponte

#2. Through educational programming, Jewish American History Month will help raise the awareness of a people, their history and contributions. It will help combat anti-Semitism, a phenomenon that is on the rise and that unfortunately still exists in our Nation.

Jan Schakowsky

#3. Good software, like wine, takes time.

Joel Spolsky

#4. Whenever more than one thread accesses a given state variable, and one of them might write to it, they all must coordinate their access to it using synchronization.

Brian Goetz

#5. South Central Los Angeles, for example, is a data and media black hole, without local cable programming or links to major data systems. Just as it became a housing-and-jobs ghetto in the postwar period, it is now evolving into an off-net electronic ghetto.

Mike Davis

#6. There aren't enough people in the media creation space. There aren't enough people making premium quality programming. That's how we change the narrative. Because there is a lot of bad African programming out there, and it is not helping matters.

Mo Abudu

#7. Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

Edsger Dijkstra

#8. A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

Bill Gates

#9. When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.

Jim Henson

#10. There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.

Jon Erickson

#11. You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting.

Steve Jobs

#12. I took computers in high school. I would do all my own programming, but I didn't see the future of computers for anything other than data processing. Who was going to use a computer for communications?

Craig Hatkoff

#13. This then is programming, both a tar pit in which many efforts have floundered and a creative activity with joys and woes all its own.

Anonymous

#14. XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

Charles Simonyi

#15. Just as it is a good practice to make all fields private unless they need greater visibility, it is a good practice to make all fields final unless they need to be mutable.

Brian Goetz

#16. I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

Douglas Adams

#17. When our goals are clearly defined and intelligently set, you have, in essence, taken a major step toward programming your left brain. That frees your right brain to be its creative best.

Zig Ziglar

#18. A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn't.

Raymond Simard

#19. 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

#20. I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.

Anders Hejlsberg

#21. The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.

Alan Kay

#22. The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

Alan Perlis

#23. The issue of finding the best possible answer or achieving maximum efficiency usually arises in industry only after serious performance or legal troubles.

Steven S. Skiena

#24. Over the last 25 years, the American free enterprise system created the most diverse video programming on earth with the best value for the customer. It is disappointing that the updated report relies on assumptions that are not in line with the reality of the marketplace.

Kyle E. McSlarrow

#25. Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

Alan Turing

#26. Amazon has included me in an opportunity to provide top-shelf television-style programming live on the world's computer screens. To hold forth with the industry's very best actors, directors, musicians, authors - I'm thrilled to be on the cutting edge of this.

Bill Maher

#27. What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.

Larry Ellison

#28. There is no one unique method to learn programming, but there are many best ways to deal with it. The one word that is frequently heard whenever it is asked about the best way to learn and be a good programmer is: 'Practice.

Santosh Avvannavar

#29. The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go.

Bill Joy

#30. Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of reality, imagination spins marvelous patterns.

August Strindberg

#31. Men have always wanted to have sex with as many fertile young women as possible. It's part of a man's basic programming. That hasn't changed. Civilization is nothing more than an artificial and very thin veneer hiding our deep-seated primitive urges.

Oliver Markus

#32. In real life, when emotions and sentiments are involved and the very continuity of life is at stake, there are no quantitative theories, linear programming, and applied mechanics available to solve those problems.

Girdhar Joshi

#33. Object-oriented programming had boldly promised "to model the world." Well, the world is a scary place where bad things happen for no apparent reason, and in this narrow sense I concede that OO does model the world.

Dave Fancher

#34. I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 18 hours programming 16 bars of music.

Keith Fullerton Whitman

#35. To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.

Eric S. Raymond

#36. Internet! Is that thing still around?

Homer

#37. We are trapped in a net of our our own self-doubt, on the programming force fed to us by parents, schools, society. In a certain light, on certain days, you can see that net. And once you can see it, you can learn to make it go away.

Chloe Thurlow

#38. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Douglas Adams

#39. I notice small things. I'm a "detail" guy, that's why I'm good at programming.

Holly Peterson

#40. That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

Larry Niven

#41. There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program

Edward Yourdon

#42. Programming in Go is like being young again (but more productive!).

Anneli Jaatteenmaki

#43. You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming.

Marshall Sylver

#44. In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

Bill Gates

#45. Don't get distracted by the noise.

Anonymous

#46. People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.'

Johnny Carson

#47. Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. A programmer who subconsciously views himself as an artist will enjoy what he does and will do it better.

Donald Knuth

#48. It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

Lawrence Kasdan

#49. The number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double in about 18 months.

Gordon Moore

#50. If the discipline of requirements specification has taught us anything, it is that well-specified requirements are as formal as code and can act as executable tests of that code!

Robert C. Martin

#51. Being able to extend jQuery, whether by adding your own functions, CSS selectors or full- blown plugins, makes you a much stronger and smarter developer.

Robert Duchnik

#52. JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.

Douglas Crockford

#53. Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.

Zendaya

#54. I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within.

William Jackson

#55. Embryos turn into babies; buds turn into blossoms; acorns turn into oak trees. The same programming that exists in them exists in each of us - to manifest our highest potential. What is the difference between those things and us? That we can say no ... So today, say yes.

Marianne Williamson

#56. The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

Brian Kernighan

#57. The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity.

Edsger Dijkstra

#58. I can follow pretty much every programming language out there, I can make a two-hundred-year-old diary out of some really nasty ingredients, I can even make sense out of the instruction booklets that come with IKEA furniture, but I can*not* make heads or tails of this nonsense right here.

Keith R.A. DeCandido

#59. Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Bill Gates

#60. We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor.

Joel Spolsky