The Art Of Computer Programming Quotes

#1. I think capitalism will survive, because no attractive alternatives exist now

Jack Goldstone

#2. Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity.

Harold Brodkey

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. fear was overshadowed by the awe of something beautiful in the chaos.

Joe Hart

#6. If I could do it all over again, I'd be the mailman. I love housewives, and I hate dogs. What more is there?

Norman Fell

#7. Once you have tasted meditation, it is impossible for you
to be in any misery. Bliss becomes inevitable.

Rajneesh

#8. As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.

Aaron Koblin

#9. Whoever has freedom has also a right to love.

Auliq Ice

#10. Distributed programming is the art of solving the same problem that you can solve on a single computer using multiple computers.

Mikito Takada

#11. What he really wanted was to have her lying beside him naked while he fed it all to her with his fingers. A man could use his imagination.

Nancy Herkness

#12. Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

Donald Knuth

#13. We feel that the 2-2-1 press is a very effective means of controlling tempo and providing us with opportunities to capitalize on the mistakes of our opponents. At the same time we feel it is a very safe press because we work very hard at the necessary rotations.

Jim Calhoun

#14. When an ensemble is really tight or playing as one, it's a transcendental experience. It is spiritual. It goes beyond the ensemble. Ray and I and Robby and Jim were pretty tight, musically and spiritually.

John Densmore

#15. And now again the story of Tripoli changes.
But whatever the outcome, she will have still her limpid skies, her air like wine, and a climate where it is a sin to acknowledge an ache or a pain, old age or unhappiness.

Mabel Loomis Todd

#16. I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.

Mike Thompson

#17. For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to the "art of computer programming" through his well-known books in a continuous series by this title.

Donald Knuth

#18. You only walk this path once. Make sure you take time to stop and enjoy the nice things. You can't smell last years roses.

Jury Nel

#19. Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

Donald Ervin Knuth

#20. If you think you're a really good programmer ... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming ... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.

Bill Gates

#21. I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

Patricia Highsmith