Programming Quotes · Page 70

The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

— Martin Fowler

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

— David Attenborough

[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.

— Bill Gates

I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

I did not have a black coat to wear to the Oscars. It was a mandatory dress code, that was the reason…

— Gulzar

Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.

— Bill Gates

Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone.

— Neil Kurshan

Our television program airs to a potential audience of over 3 billion people, in many places where the people living there may…

— Joyce Meyer

I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I…

— Barton Gellman

Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge…

— Barry Boehm

Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author…

— Alane Ferguson

Education is important. And the difference of the zip code you grow up in or the zip code you are born in…

— Gary Cohn

“Well, yes, software people are terrible at estimating, because humans are terrible at estimating. Let’s not just try harder. Let’s find a…

— Anonymous

It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion…

— Francis Crick

You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to…

— Michael Aspel

“I have nothing but pity in my heart for the chief witness for the state, but my pity does not extend so…

— Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird

“Agile is quite simple. The most popular Agile approach, Scrum, has just three roles, a handful of activities, and one major artifact:…

— Anonymous

“Code Blue! We’re losing him!” The EMTs hustled the gurney containing Erik Dawson’s broken body into the operating room where the surgical…

— Maurice M Gray Jr

“The real bottleneck is software. Creating software can be done only the old-fashioned way. A human -sitting quietly in a chair with…

— Michio Kaku

“A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as…

— Anonymous

In the end, the fate of children depends on our ability to use technology constructively and carefully. The connection of childrenand technology…

— Kenneth Keniston

When I first auditioned for Dexter... Well, I was sent the script, and I read it and loved it, and I knew…

— Julie Benz

Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and…

— Horace Mann

To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.

— Grace Hopper

There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery

— Neal Stephenson

Our program has consistency. It is an absolute accepted part of the school. I don't have to push it or promote it.

— John Williams

Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

— Salman Rushdie

I think I was a late developer because I'd been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn.

— Cornelia Parker

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.

— Bill Gates

Tax reform advocates generally agree that a fair code shouldn't single out certain groups for favorable treatment at the expense of others.

— James B. Stewart

“Now that you have discovered the duck, you can elicit new behavior from your application without changing any existing code;”

— Anonymous

Not to be blasphemous, but I wonder if even the Holy Trinity understands the American tax code.

— Maurice Carroll

If they can shut down ABC News and ABC network programming just because they don't agree on something, it makes you wonder

— Orrin Hatch

As a 25 year director of a non-profit program I began to see the need to shift from only doing projects/programs to…

— Mark Winne

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

— Steve Jobs

“People sometimes speak in code, often without realizing they are doing so, as much a mystery to themselves as others.”

— Dean Koontz

A program that produces incorrect results twice as fast is infinitely slower.

— John Ousterhout

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

— Eric S. Raymond

“a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.”

— Russ Olsen