Learning Programming Quotes

#1. I never really had the fun teens of exploring the world because I was sitting at home, learning programming.

Markus Persson

#2. So, what does it mean for teaching and learning programming when the solution to every beginner problem is available on the Internet?

Cay S. Horstmann

#3. If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.

Hal Abelson

#4. I've fully embraced who I am. I stopped fighting with people and just come to realize, 'This is me. This is all of me.'

Estelle

#5. Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.

David Gelernter

#6. I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person ... as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.

Jack Dorsey

#7. I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if made, can be reliably detected at compile time.

Tony Hoare

#8. I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

Oscar Wilde

#9. Learning a language is not interesting than knowing how it works.

Ritesh Shrivastav

#10. We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.

Charles E. Leiserson

#11. In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.

Maimonides

#12. The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.

Amari Cooper

#13. Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.

Fred Brooks

#14. I've never really been on a date, because I've been with the same girl since my early twenties, but on our first date, I showed her The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. I was like, "Hey, you've got to see this!" And we've been together ever since.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#15. Printers shall be liable to legal prosecution for printing and publishing false facts injurious to the party prosecuting: but they shall be under no other restraint.

Thomas Jefferson

#16. Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident. If we want our young women to retain these traits into adulthood, a great option is to expose them to computer programming in their youth.

Susan Wojcicki

#17. Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

Nicholas Negroponte

#18. Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify the design and construction of complex programs.

David Gelernter

#19. Programming is an explanatory activity.

Roman Harper

#20. Any noun can be verbed.

Alan Perlis

#21. Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

Hayley Mills

#22. Successful software always gets changed.

Fred Brooks

#23. Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them.

Joshua Bloch

#24. Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.

Khalil Gibran

#25. Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.

Derek Sivers

#26. Faith is trusting Jesus to lead us and going where He leads. What avails it to me to analyze Saratoga water, and to believe in its virtues? I must drink the water if I want its purifying power. And the soul that has not actually drunk of Christ can never be purged from sin.

Theodore L. Cuyler

#27. Well then, it's time to introduce the world to a little bit of extraterrestrial awesomeness.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#28. Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.

Richard E. Pattis

#29. A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

Seymour Papert

#30. Most arguments are about programming; most resolutions are reached through a process of unlearning then relearning.

Oli Anderson

#31. A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

Alan Perlis

#32. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

Alan Perlis

#33. The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, lived with my grandmother, drama teacher twisted me into doing this TV thing that I thought my mates were doing, too.

Ben Mendelsohn

#34. If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Rachel Carson