Computer programming Quotes · Page 3

That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they remember everything, and they don't drink all your beer.

— Paul Leary

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.

— Michael Crichton

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

— Alan Kay

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

— Edsger Dijkstra

I was interested in computer programming as a kid. In fact, during my college days, I used to be a hacker.

— Vatsal Sheth

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

— Donald Knuth

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be…

— Leonardo da Vinci

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.

— Edward Tufte

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation.…

— JWoww

One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a…

— Cay S. Horstmann

By reaching out to the community through workshops, hackathons, and after-school programs, Black Girls Code introduces computer programming and technology to girls…

— Kimberly Bryant

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of…

— Bill Gates

Computer programming has been traditionally seen as something that is beyond most people - it's only for a special group with technical…

— Mitchel Resnick

Just remember: you're not a 'dummy,' no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who-though technically expert-couldn't…

— Walt Mossberg

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called…

— William J. Clinton

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges,…

— Ray Ozzie

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against…

— David Gelernter

“Last year, 26 percent of Stanford’s undergraduate degrees were awarded in computer science or engineering, about three times as many as at…

— Anonymous

Technology and computers are very much at the core of our economy going forward. To be prepared for the demands of the…

— Todd Park

The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly.…

— Anonymous

The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes…

— Richard E. Pattis

We often treat children as if they're not very competent to do anything on their own. So we make them stop learning…

— Seymour Papert

“deliberate practice” to describe this style of serious study, defining it formally as an “activity designed, typically by a teacher, for the…

— Cal Newport

There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine…

— John Maeda

You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.

— Richard R. Nelson

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

— Alan Perlis

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.

— Richard E. Pattis

Computer programming has always been a self-taught, maverick occupation.

— Ellen Ullman

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.

— Robert Sewell

The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard…

— Tony Hoare

I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my…

— Maurice Wilkes

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

— Seymour Papert

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn…

— Jacques Barzun

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

— Edsger Dijkstra

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

— Bertrand Meyer

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

— Lou Gerstner

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

— Robert Coveyou

It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction.

— Albert Einstein

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

— John W. Gardner

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

— Anonymous