The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible]. — Tom Duff Copy Share Image
“Brook’s Law: “Adding more programmers to a late project makes it later.” — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Public morals are natural complements of all laws: they are by themselves an entire code. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air. — Larry Constantine Copy Share Image
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and… — Chris Sacca Copy Share Image
Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
“Alloy language and its analysis are a Trojan horse: an attempt to capture the attention of software developers, who are mired in… — Daniel Jackson Copy Share Image
The case of Iran, a nuclear program that the Iranians admit was 18 years on, that we underestimated. And, in fact, we… — David Kay Copy Share Image
It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it… — Bruce Tognazzini Copy Share Image
I was full of pride when President Obama talked about coding in his last State of the Union address. I was proud… — Reshma Saujani Copy Share Image
The new program for children in failing schools will be the largest statewide school choice program in the nation. The creation of… — Clint Bolick Copy Share Image
I don't focus on the scale. I focus on doing my job. The team staff and the program I've been working on,… — Pablo Sandoval Copy Share Image
When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Every time someone does a Western movie, people flock to it. It's like, we're continually programming to people who are least likely… — Edward Allen Bernero Copy Share Image
I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
When you're designing and inventing the way I did, every minute of your life is put - every neuron in your brain… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
The FBI wants Apple to write software code to help it break into the iPhone. Apple doesn't want to say this. Andrew… — Laura Sydell Copy Share Image
“Speaking of welding torches... there’s one heading our way!’ The Nursebot was not wrong. Coming for them with the calculated patience of… — Louise Blackwick Copy Share Image
When we take the position that it is not only the programmer's responsibility to produce a correct program but also to demonstrate… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“What then is the relation of law to morality? Law cannot prescribe morality, it can prescribe only external actions and therefore it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She was working on the eighth step of her program and was here in Haverhill to make amends. For years she had… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project. — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
“All you men do is rape us. With your eyes, your laws, your codes…even your penises-” — S. A. David Copy Share Image
For sure, to be exact, one seventh of my patients never graduated my program. — Steve-O Copy Share Image
The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements. — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
As long as Iran believes that its security will be increased by having a nuclear program, it's going to pursue its program. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“He found it increasingly difficult to accept the strict codes of the sect that clashed with ordinary values.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
The Hubble program has been so fantastically successful. It's more than what anyone expected. — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
“There’s a dress code at Dark Grove,” she informed me. “And we want to play dress-up with Bombshell Barbie.” I” — Julia Sykes Copy Share Image
“Find individual programs that work, and support them. Find programs that don’t work, and stop doing them.” — Dean Karlan Copy Share Image
That 'Super Mario' movie from the 1990s... left a really bad taste in the mouth of our developers. — Reggie Fils-Aime Copy Share Image