Data Structure Quotes

#1. The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.

Alan J. Perlis

#2. Objects hide their data behind abstractions and expose functions that operate on that data. Data structure expose their data and have no meaningful functions.

Robert C. Martin

#3. In Lock splitting we use different locks for different parts of the application. In Lock striping we use multiple locks to protect different parts of the same data structure. ConcurrentHashMap

Knowledge Powerhouse

#4. A data structure is just a stupid programming language.

Bill Gosper

#5. It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.

Anonymous

#6. To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge.

Rob Pike

#7. It's easy to make mistakes that only come out much later, after you've already implemented a lot of code. You'll realize Oh I should have used a different type of data structure. Start over from scratch.

Guido Van Rossum

#8. The key to a solid foundation in data structures and algorithms is not an exhaustive survey of every conceivable data structure and its subforms, with memorization of each's Big-O value and amortized cost.

Robert Love

#9. All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.

Julia Cameron

#10. Decision: I refuse to achieve "success" at the expense of my life. The two - life success and genuine fulfillment - will have to go hand in hand, because I will not keep my head down for the next forty years only to look up at the end and say, "Now I can finally start living!

Richie Norton

#11. The Engineer began dismantling the helmet at a breakneck speed, stacking the components - faceplate, lining, mikes, data processor, even microfans - on the nearest flat surface, a hydroplane-like structure on a small vessel.

Karen Traviss

#12. Happiness is there when thoughts and actions are in harmony.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Amazing. Three hundred years of segregation undone by a single girl. She must be as incredible as she looks.

Veronica Rossi

#14. Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.

Tom Boellstorff

#15. How would your relationships change if you resolved never to lie again? What truths about yourself might suddenly come into view? What kind of person would you become? And how might you change the people around you? It is worth finding out.

Sam Harris

#16. There is an entitlement that is starting to emerge that I think is unhealthy for people and unhealthy for a country ... I think the only thing that can be 'below you' is to not have a job.

Ashton Kutcher

#17. Dana followed a specific structure: Set the stage. Gather data. Generate insights. Decide what to do. Close the retrospective.

Esther Derby

#18. The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures.

Fred Brooks

#19. Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

Victor J. Stenger

#20. Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.

Rachel Zoe