“A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.” — Arthur Bloch Copy Share Image
I'm on a strict running program. I started yesterday. I've only missed one day so far. — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so,… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift… — Larry Tesler Copy Share Image
I think my software is going to become so ubiquitous, so essential, that if it stops working, there will be riots. — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
You can't use the tax code as a penal system because you don't like what a country is doing. — John Layfield Copy Share Image
“He measured himself and those around him by an impossibly rigorous moral code.” — Carine McCandless Copy Share Image
The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
At heart, human beings are what we may call 'generalists,' who have the ability to adapt their internal 'software programs' to different… — Bret Weinstein Copy Share Image
“colour coding to decipher. Can you work out what the colour coding means? Is it related to input vs output functions? Or… — Simon Brown Copy Share Image
“As the adage of the entire internet once went, “I just replaced your entire industry with 100 lines of Python code,” that’s… — Andreas M. Antonopoulos Copy Share Image
If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“All that incoherence. Selection, election, option, alternative. All behind him now. Codes and formats. Courses of action. Values, bias, predilection. Choice is… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I am very happily employed as a full-time software engineer; I travel a lot, and I write books along with this here… — Jon Evans Copy Share Image
“There is, of course, a lot of disagreement on Earth about whether demons actually exist, what they want, and how much of… — Robert Kroese Copy Share Image
Epic started out with scripting languages in the first generation of the Unreal engine in 1998. I wrote that. There's a place… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build… — Gerald Jay Sussman Copy Share Image
“I think about failure a lot lately. Staring out of city bus windows at the passing streetlights. Scanning bar codes. Making chitchat… — Kenny Porpora Copy Share Image
There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“What is that 95 percent? Some is junk—remnants of pseudogenes inactivated by evolution.fn4,3 But buried in that are the keys to the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Good information architecture enables people to find and do what they came for. Great information architecture takes find out of the equation:… — Jeffrey Zeldman Copy Share Image
“Developing software that delivers true business value is not the same thing as developing ordinary business software. Software that delivers true business… — Vaughn Vernon Copy Share Image
We've got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that's why we've specifically recommended ... that Congress… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
'Code sharing' is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
“We’re proving not only that we can do better software, but that joy is an asset.” — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think It's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
“The French Code for cheese is ALIVE. The American Code for cheese, on the other hand, is DEAD.” — G. Clotaire Rapaille Copy Share Image
Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers. — David Hanson Copy Share Image
“Fake it ‘til you make it – universal clause in the unwritten hunter’s code." #Greta2” — Chloe Jacobs Copy Share Image
Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform. — Timothee Besset Copy Share Image
“Distributed programming is the art of solving the same problem that you can solve on a single computer using multiple computers.” — Mikito Takada Copy Share Image
I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic… — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“Tip 1 Care About Your Craft We feel that there is no point in developing software unless you care about doing it well.” — Andrew Hunt Copy Share Image
I do feel that over the years from watching programmes that tell people 'you're not good enough,' I just don't like it. — Ainsley Harriott Copy Share Image
