Programming Quotes · Page 86

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

— Anonymous

If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

— Freeman Dyson

Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.

— Clay Shirky

As long as Iran believes that its security will be increased by having a nuclear program, it's going to pursue its program.

— Stephen Kinzer

“He found it increasingly difficult to accept the strict codes of the sect that clashed with ordinary values.”

— Haruki Murakami

Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.

— Wietse Venema

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means…

— Ludwig von Mises

The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.

— David F. Emery

One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has…

— Peter Norvig

I do love to cry. I'll cry at the drop of a hat. I'll cry at your basic television programme, let alone…

— Miranda Hart

I'm also a fan with sticking with the most standard software that millions of other users also use, because you get the…

— Steve Wozniak

“Intimacy issues' is code for 'I haven't met the right person.'" "And what is 'trust issues' code for?" Pierce held his gaze.…

— Josh Lanyon

Whatever the Victorians did right in England, we need to resuscitate over here. In the late 19th century, the entire English population…

— Charles Murray

I don't program, so I don't belong in Silicon Valley. If I did belong in Silicon Valley, I'd be there creating a…

— Thomas Middleditch

When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about…

— Richard P. Feynman

Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must…

— Narendra Modi

“Long live transfinite mountains, the hollow earth, time machines, fractal writing, aliens, dada, telepathy, flying saucers, warped space, teleportation, artificial reality, robots,…

— Rudy Rucker

More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many…

— Marc Andreessen

If the system exhibits a structure which can be represented by a mathematical equivalent, called a mathematical model, and if the objective…

— George Dantzig

“Me: Staying here tonight. Helen: You okay? Code word? Helen and I had code words for everything. It was usually an old…

— Renee Carlino

“...we are the product of this universe and I think it can be argued that the entire cosmic code is imprinted in…

— Janna Levin

“I steal things.” “You do what?” She wanted to smile at the incredulous tone. “Is stealing worse than killing? I thought it…

— Christine Feehan

The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the…

— Barry Ritholtz

Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do, it costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of…

— John Carmack

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns…

— Jack Paar

For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.

— Walter Benjamin

There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity.

— Wendy Long

We need a tax code that truly helps working Americans trying to get a leg up in the new economy.

— Barack Obama

“Find individual programs that work, and support them. Find programs that don’t work, and stop doing them.”

— Dean Karlan

That 'Super Mario' movie from the 1990s... left a really bad taste in the mouth of our developers.

— Reggie Fils-Aime

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are…

— Dick Wolf

Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.

— Sam Altman

The Hubble program has been so fantastically successful. It's more than what anyone expected.

— Heidi Hammel

“There’s a dress code at Dark Grove,” she informed me. “And we want to play dress-up with Bombshell Barbie.” I”

— Julia Sykes

“In typically generous fashion, Crick was offering Nirenberg the opportunity to step into history as the man who had cracked the genetic…

— Matthew Cobb

The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a…

— Norm MacDonald

When I wrote 'The Da Vinci Code,' I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the…

— Dan Brown

I'm a victim of Developaralysis: the crippling sense that the software industry is evolving so fast that no one person can possibly…

— Jon Evans

“Life is a sort of spreadsheet program in which each cell’s action is dictated by its neighbors.”

— William Poundstone

Use what you have in your gym. Try to do my training program, you will lose your fat and gain muscles at…

— Serge Nubret