Executable Quotes

#1. Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.

L Peter Deutsch

#2. 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

#3. Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable

Per Brinch Hansen

#4. Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise.

Bruce Eckel

#5. Each mini-programme - called a shader by OpenGL - is compiled, and the whole set are linked together to form the executable shader programme - called a program by OpenGL. Yes, that's the worst naming convention ever.

Anton Gerdelan

#6. [Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.

Jamie Zawinski

#7. Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

#8. Assembly, while extremely powerful, is simply too difficult to program large applications and hard to read or interpret in a logical way. C is a compiled language, which creates fast and efficient executable files. It is also a small "what you see is all you get" language:

Wiki Books

#9. Capability view is for the strategic re-think of "what," and process view is about the "executable knowing "how.

Pearl Zhu

#10. The bash built-in type command searches your environment (including aliases, keywords, functions, built-ins, and files in the $PATH) for executable commands matching its arguments and displays the type and location of any matches.

Anonymous

#11. At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their credit, granted this 12 year old girl a chance to give it a try.

Erika Christensen

#12. I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.

Dane Cook

#13. Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.

Jerry Hall

#14. When I hit one over, I knew I was good.

Ray Allen

#15. I opened the door and went inside, calling "I'm home!" Except that I wasn't, really. Because home meant something else to me now, and had for quite awhile. And he didn't live there anymore.

Meg Cabot

#16. London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.

JJ Feild

#17. Seasoned killers all, thought Selmy, but it is one thing to face a foe in the pit when his coming is heralded by horns and drums and another to find a hidden killer before he can strike.

George R R Martin

#18. I'm 6'2 and not a small person.

Andrew Rannells

#19. Poison has a certain appeal ... It has not the crudeness of the revolver bullet or the blunt weapon.

Agatha Christie

#20. There are no good men in this game.

V.E Schwab

#21. Not to excuse myself, but you have people right in front of you denying your very presence like that, then see if you don't doubt whether you actually exist.

Haruki Murakami

#22. If it's true that God gives you the desires of your heart, then it is imperative that you know your desires and have the courage to communicate them. It is God who places the desires of your life in your heart.

Lisa Jimenez