Computer Program Quotes

#1. Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck.

Frederik Pohl

#2. A speaking, a crisis, people's lives in tatters, the future of the colony in doubt. And I cry in relief because an overblown computer program is speaking to me again,

Orson Scott Card

#3. A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells ... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have to incorporate the deepest insights of biologists, nerve scientists, psychologists, physiologists, linguists, social scientists, and even philosophers.

Tony Hoare

#4. Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill's hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for?
- Eric, club dead.

Charlaine Harris

#5. Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone.

Neil Kurshan

#6. In the same sense that every thermal differential wants to equalize itself, and every computer program wants to become a collection of ad-hoc patches, every Cause wants to be a cult. It's

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#7. The mind is an evolved computer program.

Eric Baum

#8. A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.

Fred Brooks

#9. The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds are more than syntactical. Minds are semantical, in the sense that they have more than a formal structure, they have a content.

John Searle

#10. We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#11. DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

Bill Gates

#12. This proposal would mean our Universe is entirely deterministic, our lives the result of a gigantic computer program that we live within and form part of.

James Tagg

#13. A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.

Arthur Bloch

#14. A computer program can modify itself but it cannot violate its own instructions - it can at best change some parts of itself by *obeying* its own instructions.

Douglas Hofstadter

#15. The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.

Mitch Kapor

#16. All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.

David Coverdale

#17. A war that operates in every human mind below the subconscious level, like a computer program, constantly running in the background, guiding us to some eventuality." Kate

A.G. Riddle

#18. I think music will be created algorhythmically, all the things that we do will be boiled down to a little computer program.

Cliff Martinez

#19. What Jacob and Monod had discovered, in essence, was that each gene acts like a single line in a computer program.

Gary F. Marcus

#20. Isn't that a computer program? Sadie asked. I wanted

Rick Riordan

#21. Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.

Douglas Rushkoff

#22. I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories.

Stephen Hawking

#23. The Vedic viewpoint presents a type of linguistic realism in which reality is the 'text' which is being processed by the observer. Reality can also be modified by adding text to it similar to how a programmer programs a computer by inputting a computer program.

Ashish Dalela

#24. I have to tell him that the sheep we're looking for is a woman who runs a pet store," Creek said. "I think telling him his younger brother's been resurrected as a computer program might be a little much for one day." Archie

John Scalzi

#25. The secret of DNA's success is that it carries information like that of a computer program, but far more advanced. Since experience shows that intelligence is the only presently acting cause of information, we can infer that intelligence is the best explanation for the information in DNA.

Jonathan Wells

#26. Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

Richard Dawkins

#27. In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

Jon Postel

#28. Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

Seth Klarman

#29. Every child should learn to program a computer because it will teach you how to think.

Steve Jobs

#30. It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

Edsger Dijkstra

#31. You see, Earthman, they really are particularly clever hyper-intelligent pandimensional beings. Your planet and people have formed the matrix of an organic computer running a ten-million-year research program ... . Let me tell you the whole story. It'll take a little time.

Douglas Adams

#32. I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.

Kevin Mitnick

#33. There are several places in Vietnam where they're teaching computer science from second grade in class, so they don't have a gender divide because everybody is expected to program.

Megan Smith

#34. Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck.

Frederik Pohl

#35. In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

Herbert Simon

#36. A speaking, a crisis, people's lives in tatters, the future of the colony in doubt. And I cry in relief because an overblown computer program is speaking to me again,

Orson Scott Card

#37. A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells ... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have to incorporate the deepest insights of biologists, nerve scientists, psychologists, physiologists, linguists, social scientists, and even philosophers.

Tony Hoare

#38. I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.

Jamie Zawinski

#39. Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill's hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for?
- Eric, club dead.

Charlaine Harris

#40. ...the telemetrists began to use a computer to program the computer that designed the program for the computer that programmed the robot-controlling computer.
There was nothing but confusion.

Isaac Asimov

#41. Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone.

Neil Kurshan

#42. In the same sense that every thermal differential wants to equalize itself, and every computer program wants to become a collection of ad-hoc patches, every Cause wants to be a cult. It's

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#43. The mind is an evolved computer program.

Eric Baum

#44. A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.

Fred Brooks

#45. In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

Alan Kay

#46. In the early stages of negotiation software, on your smartphone, there may be programs that listen to the pitch of a voice, or that test for stress. You'll just ask the program, 'Was he lying? Was he eager to do business with me?' Maybe the computer will be right sixty per cent of the time.

Tyler Cowen

#47. If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.

Tucker Max

#48. I often calculate odds on horse races; the civil service computermen frequently program such requests. But the results are so at variance with expectations that I have concluded either that the data is too meager, or the horses or riders are not honest. Possibly all three.

Robert A. Heinlein

#49. In the U.S. there are two types of hipsters: those who know how to program and those who serve coffee.

Cesar Hidalgo

#50. I used to want to be a computer programmer when I was younger. We got an Apple II Plus when I was, like, 11 and I wrote programs and BASIC on that, like I think a lot of people did, but I have no idea how to program in the current languages at all.

Chris Parnell

#51. The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds are more than syntactical. Minds are semantical, in the sense that they have more than a formal structure, they have a content.

John Searle

#52. We passed a bill in 1997, signed by Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles, which created a pilot program for a novel experiment called Florida Virtual School. The notion of children using a computer for a classroom and reporting to virtual teachers wasn't exactly mainstream thinking in those days.

Dan Webster

#53. I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing.

Jerry Mathers

#54. Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of.

Richard Dawkins

#55. Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.

John Maeda

#56. In high school, one of the things I loved doing was this after-school program where you would teach computer skills to some of the maintenance folks at school.

Mike Krieger

#57. Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since.

Noam Chomsky

#58. If India is computer, Congress is its default program.

Rahul Gandhi

#59. The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.

P. J. Plauger

#60. We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#61. DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

Bill Gates

#62. The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user.

C.A.R. Hoare

#63. This proposal would mean our Universe is entirely deterministic, our lives the result of a gigantic computer program that we live within and form part of.

James Tagg

#64. A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.

Arthur Bloch

#65. Transparency once meant being able to "open the hood" to see how things worked. Now, with the Macintosh meaning of transparency dominant in the computer culture, it means quite the opposite: being able to use a program without knowing how it works.

Sherry Turkle

#66. Be grateful. Find something to be grateful for. Don't do too many things that make you feel like you deserve to lose because we do program our own computers. I believe there is a plus and a minus column and if you end up on the minus column, your own conscience will make you lose.

Jim Carrey

#67. The program I use is called MED Soundstudio. It's basically a column of numbers that relate to pitch, duration, the type of sound. If I want to play a chord, I have to press keys on a keyboard - like a computer keyboard, on my Amiga - that relate to sharps and flats, note by note.

Max Tundra

#68. The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin, any more than a study of silicon, copper and plastic will explain how a computer can execute a program.

Paul Davies

#69. I'm not a computer person at all. I only know how to turn them on. I'm not a programmer. I couldn't program my way out of a paper bag.

Rick Smolan

#70. A computer program can modify itself but it cannot violate its own instructions - it can at best change some parts of itself by *obeying* its own instructions.

Douglas Hofstadter

#71. The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.

Mitch Kapor

#72. All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.

David Coverdale

#73. As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California, mainly because I knew how to program an ancient PDP8/S computer that had been donated to the project.

Jill Tarter

#74. The Tinkering School. More of a lab than a school, this summer program, created by computer scientist Gever Tulley, lets children from seven to seventeen play around with interesting stuff and build cool things.

Daniel H. Pink

#75. Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

Mary Douglas

#76. The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.

Philip Emeagwali

#77. Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

Rupert Sheldrake

#78. A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

Dennis Ritchie

#79. A war that operates in every human mind below the subconscious level, like a computer program, constantly running in the background, guiding us to some eventuality." Kate

A.G. Riddle

#80. I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.

Richard Stallman

#81. I think music will be created algorhythmically, all the things that we do will be boiled down to a little computer program.

Cliff Martinez

#82. When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music.

Martin Garrix

#83. What Jacob and Monod had discovered, in essence, was that each gene acts like a single line in a computer program.

Gary F. Marcus

#84. Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer ... because it teaches you how to think.

Steve Jobs

#85. Isn't that a computer program? Sadie asked. I wanted

Rick Riordan

#86. If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.

Rachel Platten

#87. The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

Timothy Leary

#88. The computer industry began with home-brew boxes that everyone had to program for themselves, but that was a huge hassle. The computer revolution didn't explode until the first Macintosh arrived, with its point-and-click simplicity.

Clive Thompson

#89. Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.

Douglas Rushkoff

#90. A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.

Dennis Ritchie

#91. It's hard to program a computer to make jokes. The brain needs to do something here; the brain needs to come up with something bizarre to make something funny.

Brian Regan

#92. I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories.

Stephen Hawking

#93. The Vedic viewpoint presents a type of linguistic realism in which reality is the 'text' which is being processed by the observer. Reality can also be modified by adding text to it similar to how a programmer programs a computer by inputting a computer program.

Ashish Dalela

#94. When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

Tim Berners-Lee

#95. Hi there! This is Eddie, your shipboard computer, and I'm feeling just great, guys, and I know I'm just going to get a bundle of kicks out of any program you care to run through me.

Douglas Adams

#96. I have to tell him that the sheep we're looking for is a woman who runs a pet store," Creek said. "I think telling him his younger brother's been resurrected as a computer program might be a little much for one day." Archie

John Scalzi

#97. The best computer programmers never write a new program when they can use an old one for a new job.

Gerald M. Weinberg

#98. The secret of DNA's success is that it carries information like that of a computer program, but far more advanced. Since experience shows that intelligence is the only presently acting cause of information, we can infer that intelligence is the best explanation for the information in DNA.

Jonathan Wells

#99. Zero-length arrays are useful only in cases where you have a large structure, which contains a field of dynamic length, and you need to share that structure across program or even computer boundaries.

Robert Love

#100. I'm a contract computer scientist by trade, but I'm the founder of something called the Tinkering School. It's a summer program which aims to help kids to learn how to build the things that they think of.

Gever Tulley