Programming Quotes · Page 63

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

— Maurice Wilkes

I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code.

— Anonymous

“Code breaker Mabel Elliott's favorite quote was: It isn't life that matters! It's the courage we bring to it.”

— Hugh Walpole

You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.

— Bill Gates

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

— Bertrand Meyer

“Man is a hostage to the cage of cultural programming and the mass hallucination of the propagandist’s narrative illusion.”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies

Programmes are like weeds - they spring up, grow quickly, and then should be allowed to die quickly.

— David Starkey

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for…

— Mercedes Lackey

“— It's Hlynur Bjorn Hafsteinsson, Bergporugotu, 8b, Reykjavik, Iceland. — Is there no postal code? — Oh yes. It's hundred and one…

— Hallgrímur Helgason

Across the many years I've been involved with arts education, I have seen countless projects, schemes, partnerships and programmes, on and off…

— Michael Rosen

Kickstarter can get customers invested, both literally and figuratively, in a game before it is released. With nothing but an idea, a…

— Jason Schreier

I tell people too young to know that we came up during two of the most dogmatic times in recent history -…

— David First

Sometimes I like to think that the responsibility of every new generation of Democrats is to devise a program that mints new…

— Rick Perlstein

The movement really has evolved because their initial demands [such as factory codes of conduct and disclosure of supplier names and addresses]…

— Pietra Rivoli

There are certain places in the Bible Code that must be changed in order for us to survive, not just to survive…

— Drunvalo Melchizedek

“For example, one programmer argued vociferously for the inclusion of a question to female users: "How expensive is your perfume?" The answer…

— Michael DiBaggio

Our destination programming allows us to put a stake in the ground and create a showy tweak that is story driven, with…

— Mindy Grossman

There's a strong distinction to be made between dry code smart contacts and wet code's physical law. So law is based on…

— Nick Szabo

“I actually like it. It does everything I want a word processing program to do, and it doesn't do anything else. I…

— George R.R. Martin

The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to…

— Eric S. Raymond

Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being…

— Pat Metheny

Our camps and workshops offer a space where girls of color can learn computer science and coding principles alongside their peers, with…

— Kimberly Bryant

For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must. A personal firewall such as Zone Alarm and running a program like HFNetcheck,…

— Kevin Mitnick

I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I could audition for…

— Josh Dallas

I am very concerned about anything that says 'revenue' because let's just be honest; revenue for Democrats has become code for tax…

— Jim Jordan

Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.

— Santiago Calatrava

“At X-Feer, we teach how to solve problems not how to write a code because that's the most important thing in coding.”

— Anonymous

The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.

— Bram Cohen

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

— Adam Osborne

Be authentic speak your truth...God created you to be uniquely different from anyone else. He had reason; don't mess with the program.

— Regina Malabago

Mama said that I and I dissed the program. Not the type to mess around with your emotion.

— Shaggy

“Dexter the no-bloodhound, who hid behind a human-seeming face and tracked down the truly naughty serial killers who killed without code.”

— Jeff Lindsay

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is…

— Linus Torvalds

Though many of Obsidian's games have featured wry, sardonic humor, the developer has stuck to more serious fantasy and sci-fi themes.

— Jason Schreier

“Every person's mental programming is partly unique, partly shared with others.”

— Geert Hofstede

When you are coaching an international team, you are running a programme for 12 months of the year. You get to influence…

— Mickey Arthur

The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute…

— Nawal El Saadawi

I don't like Utah. In fact, I hate them. I hate everything about them. I hate their program, their fans. I hate…

— Max Hall