Programming Quotes · Page 62

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

— Ayn Rand

Actually, attorneys say, copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time.

— Charles Duhigg

I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate…

— William Shatner

...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.

— Steve Martin

“give people a tool, and they’ll code for a day; teach them how to build tools, and they’ll code for a lifetime.…

— Mark Lutz

You are in big trouble when you start writing software to impress girls.

— Bruce Ellis

Most Swiss banks do have a whistleblower program, but they use it to punish those who avail themselves of it.

— Herve Falciani

We allow the top developers whose games are being played millions of times to translate that into U.S. dollars.

— David Baszucki

Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honor consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest…

— David Graham Phillips

That which is right is different for each one of us in each situation. There isn't a moral code that I or…

— Frederick Lenz

So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the…

— Kevin Mitnick

Our waterboarding program is based on the U.S. military training program... tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen were waterboarded pursuant to this…

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr

We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture…

— Andrea Dworkin

SERE is a classified program, but every person informed of it is 'read in' to the details of the program. Even the…

— Malcolm Nance

I go to the gym twice a day. I take no days off. I do three days of DDP Yoga, and I…

— Goldust

“My knight may not wear a coat of shining armor, but his code of glowing honor will never fail to protect us…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind.…

— David Berlinski

“the bourgeoisie wanted to insert something more than just the negative law of “this is not yours” between the worker and the…

— Michel Foucault

People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap…

— Tana French

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's…

— Ben Gibbard

“SIOP developers approached their project from the opposite direction. They began by announcing a model of sheltered instruction, incorporating a list of…

— James Crawford

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or…

— Tim Berners-Lee

Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and…

— Bill Gates

“Please stop patronizing those who are reading a book - The Da Vinci Code, maybe- because they are enjoying it. For a…

— Nick Hornby

War is a programme which is run in order to make peace; but the trouble is when it is run, it makes…

— Vikrant Parsai

The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.

— Eric S. Raymond

Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments:…

— Rajneesh

“developer testing should probably take 8 to 25 percent of the total project time.”

— Steve McConnell

I think that any program that's born from below rather than on high is going to survive.

— Greg Boyle

“you stick to what you know, who you know and where you know. You do not move out of regularly scheduled programming.”

— Kristen Ashley

Right now, if you're a talented developer or designer, government is what you go into if you can't get a better job.

— Jennifer Pahlka

Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free…

— Hugo Chavez

We are often celebrating technology and codes, but we don't really think about the creative side.

— Harper Reed

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

— Tony Hoare

Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented.

— Guido van Rossum

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Infrastructure as Code.” If you’re going to do operations reliably, you need to make it reproducible and programmatic.”

— Mike Loukides

The quality of your public education shouldn't be defined by your zip code.

— Jalen Rose

“Most of the best programmers I know are also very fluent in their mother's tongue, and typically in other languages as well.”

— Kevlin Henney

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

— Seymour Papert