Quotes About Programming

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Eric S. Raymond

#6. Internet! Is that thing still around?

Homer

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Holly Peterson

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

Larry Niven

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

Edward Yourdon

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

Anneli Jaatteenmaki

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

Marshall Sylver

#14. 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

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

Anonymous

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Lawrence Kasdan

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

Gordon Moore

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Douglas Crockford

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

Zendaya

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Brian Kernighan

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

Edsger Dijkstra

#28. 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

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

Bill Gates

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

Joel Spolsky

#31. 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

#32. 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

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

Joel Spolsky

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

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

Edsger Dijkstra

#38. 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

#39. 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

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

Jon Erickson

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

Steve Jobs

#42. 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

#43. 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

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

Charles Simonyi

#45. 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

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

Alan Perlis

#47. I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

Socrates

#48. Ethernet always wins.

Andy Bechtolsheim

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

Per Brinch Hansen

#50. Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle.

Vernor Vinge

#51. Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity. These are not things you can overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule.

Damian Conway

#52. 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

#53. Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

Tabatha Coffey

#54. 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

#55. meritocracies. Computer programming didn't operate as an old-boy network,

Anonymous

#56. Access to high quality video content
essentially TV programming
has never been better than today

Lloyd Braun

#57. A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.

Bram Cohen

#58. When we had no computers, we had no programming problem either. When we had a few computers, we had a mild programming problem. Confronted with machines a million times as powerful, we are faced with a gigantic programming problem.

Edsger Dijkstra

#59. Perl programming is an *empirical* science!

Larry Wall

#60. As the old programming adage goes: you had a problem and tried to solve it using regular expressions.

Jeremy Walker

#61. It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

Lou Gerstner

#62. The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.

Frederick Lenz

#63. When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.

David Nevins

#64. The reason why people think of programming as being hard is because you're writing down a general rule which is going to be used for lots of instances that a particular instance must process correctly.

Gerald Jay Sussman

#65. Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.

Kent Beck

#66. New elements, she thought, pleased with the challenge. Roarke had been fiddling, adding some elements and upgrades. When she engaged in hand-to-hand with the second thief, she knew he'd fiddled with the programming with her in mind.

J.D. Robb

#67. People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#68. we suggest going to sleep for a couple of years. Then you can wake up and learn Android programming once Gingerbread devices no longer make up a meaningful share of the market.

Brian Hardy

#69. If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

Eric S. Raymond

#70. I think one of the prophets stuttered when he dictated your specs," Jal said, snickering. "Or the gene-splicer was daydreaming about his high-status trueborn love and he botched your programming.

Karen Sandler

#71. The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code,

Douglas McIlroy

#72. Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.

Fred Brooks

#73. Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Alan Perlis

#74. You're not getting any younger. You can only be a canoeing, programming, hermit bachelor, CEO rich dude for so long.

Jenny Holiday

#75. Redundant comments are just places to collect lies and misinformation.

Robert C. Martin

#76. The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler to write a program to get the teacher's password and all the other students' passwords. And the teacher gave me an A and told the class how smart I was.

Kevin Mitnick

#77. Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore.

Maury Povich

#78. Learn from them, because I will always be there, one step ahead of you, programming more difficult and advanced patterns into the computer so that your next battle is more difficult, so that you are pushed

Orson Scott Card

#79. It should be noted that no ethically -trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

Nathaniel S. Borenstein

#80. We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.

Rowan Atkinson

#81. ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.

Drew Curtis

#82. Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied.

Stewart Brand

#83. I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.

Vince Clarke

#84. Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.

Phil McGraw

#85. Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.

Tom Shales

#86. History shows that pay-TV subscribers flee in droves to alternative providers when there is even a rare service disruption - demonstrating a quantifiable value for 'must-have' broadcast programming.

Gordon Smith

#87. If we can't program it, we can't understand it.

David Deutsch

#88. Truth can only be found in one place: the code.

Robert C. Martin

#89. I'm seeing too many kids where they get fixated on their own autism. I'd rather have them get fixated that they like programming computers or they like art or they want to sing in the church choir or they want to train dogs, you know, something that they can turn into a career.

Temple Grandin

#90. I do think that the days of gathering around a television set that functions merely as a television set, to receive a live broadcast of some networked programming, those days are probably numbered.

Jason Alexander

#91. Celibacy is nothing if not abnormal. The human body and brain are not made for such programming. Whatever normal is, it does not include celibacy.

Darrel Ray

#92. The science and engineering of programming just isn't good enough to produce flawless software, and that isn't going to change anytime soon. The

Bruce Schneier

#93. Programming is as much a craft as it is just having knowledge.

Caleb Doxsey

#94. This is what it is to learn programming. You get to know your useful tools, then you look around, and there are some handy new tools nearby and those tools show you the bottomless horror that was always right next to your bed.

Anonymous

#95. If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.

Billy Graham

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

Alan Perlis

#97. Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it.

Richard P. Gabriel

#98. It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming.

Kenny Loggins

#99. The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.

Randy Jackson

#100. Software sucks because users demand it to.

Nathan Myhrvold