Programming Quotes · Page 90

Programmers are very creative people. And animators are problem solvers, just as programmers are.

— Edwin Catmull

“The code of the con is to know just enough about everything so you can lie about anything. (attrib: E. Tancarville)”

— Dan Garfat-Pratt

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

— Marvin Minsky

Go isn't functional, it's pragmatical. Why pure paradigms like FP or OOP are always a must? (sigh)

— Frank Muller

“We do not need to attend classroom training programmes for everything. Observation opens the windows of knowledge around us”

— Sukant Ratnakar

Our space programme has overcome many hurdles. At the same time it is one of the most cost effective programmes. This should…

— Narendra Modi

I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

— Alan Kay

In any software work, you have IT consultancy competence required to build the systems.

— Azim Premji

The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts.…

— Jaron Lanier

Morale is a little bit dimmed, is a bit affected by the redundancy program. That program had been planned for quite some…

— David Edward Kirk

Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to…

— Trip Hawkins

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those…

— Nelson Mandela

“Lottie did everything the old fashioned way, including the bookkeeping, which was fine with me since I knew nothing about accounting software…

— Kate Collins

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head…

— Niklaus Wirth

Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us…

— Sholem Asch

I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking…

— Robert A. Heinlein

With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major 'bugs' and does not work reliably for some users...…

— David Parnas

One more time? We've done this. We've done this at least four times where there's a new government program to help homeowners…

— John Boehner

“[There are] code words used today to measure the 'authenticity' of relationships or other persons. We speak of whether we can personally…

— Richard Sennett

“Ronan’s expression was still incendiary. His code of honor left no room for infidelity, for casual relationships. It wasn’t that he didn’t…

— Maggie Stiefvater

If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access…

— Megan McArdle

“Take Canada again: why does Canada have the health-care program it does? Up until the mid-1960s, Canada and the United States had…

— Noam Chomsky

“The people most likely to grasp that wealth can be created are the ones who are good at making things, the craftsmen.…

— Paul Graham

Needless to say, I fully support the legal codes that are meant to protect individuals from discrimination.

— Gad Saad

“You probably don’t want to change the meaning of true halfway through your program (except perhaps if you’re a politician).”

— Dave Thomas

We're constantly rationalizing where we stand and our own code and dealing with, you know, how you can be the best version…

— Ramy Youssef

I think as automation gets even more and more prevalent, we're going to need to learn how to code. Everybody does.

— Reshma Saujani

I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as…

— Phil Donahue

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody…

— Gabe Newell

“Through a determined program of sheer dumb luck and liberal applications of THC I had managed never to impregnate a woman before,”

— Michael Chabon

God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.

— Alexander Waugh

In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts

— Imre Lakatos

Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training.

— Lee Haney

In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I love Villanova, I love the program, I love the school, I love Nova Nation.

— Josh Hart

“Ask a programmer to review ten lines of code, he’ll find ten issues. Ask him to do five hundred lines, and he’ll…

— Gene Kim

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

— Thomas A. Bailey

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

— Alan Perlis