I have done literary translation because the University of Arkansas, where I did my MFA, was program of creative writing and translation,… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
“The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
“In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, "to be, or not to be, that is the question." In the 21st century, "to code, or not… — Newton Lee Copy Share Image
“The most successful computer programmers aren't the ones who approach programming as a task they have to carry out in order to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting.” — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Don't hurry your code. Make sure it works well and is well designed. Don't worry about timing. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're the toolmakers. Our developers are the real creative geniuses. — David Baszucki Copy Share Image
Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Edmund Burke said “there is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is… — Amari Cooper Copy Share Image
“No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by the word. It is every individual's individual code of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“he thought a bit about God, and whether He might be some kind of universal digital computer, subject to the occasional bug… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
Some people simply use their faith as a lexicon of behavioral reasoning; without that they would be forced to face their own… — Deborah Feldman Copy Share Image
I Embark On Life, My Path Is All Math I Understand The Codes These Hackers Can't Crack I Understand That Folks Expect… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
We had a thing there where you could turn in - it was some sort of recycling program - the bottle caps… — Michael Rooker Copy Share Image
“Virginia’s 1705 code mandated that planters provide freed White servants with fifty acres of land. The resulting White prosperity was then attributed… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. — Anonymous 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
When I use electronic beats and program things, there's something quite brain about that - you're feeling it in your body but… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.” — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
The difference between the dinosaurs and us is that we have a space program and we can vote. — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
The 12-step chocolate program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE! — Terry Moore Copy Share Image
“Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.” — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
In the mid-1980s, however, the Estonian TV programmers came up with a clever idea: they asked Moscow for millions of rubles to… — Jaak Kilmi Copy Share Image
I didn't go on a campaign of developers asking, 'Please give me money.' — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy. — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“a subterranean murmur. It may sound like one of the many separate voices that make up the sounds of a creek. Or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Q: How many Java programmers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: One, to generate a “ChangeLightBulb” event to the socket.… — Scott McNeely Copy Share Image
Our new programmes have always just been different vehicles for the same sort of comedy. — Bob Mortimer Copy Share Image
