Programming Quotes · Page 93

How many roads must a developer walk down, before they accept the amenities package?

— Bob Dylan

The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.

— Lael Brainard

“There needs to be an adoption program out there, where families take in random strangers.” “That’s called marriage, dear.”

— Anonymous

For women, style codes are not merely about being smart or presentable, they are a platform for judgment.

— Sara Pascoe

“A girl yesterday during my program asked me a question; Sir, Why is this world an Unsafe place? And i had confusion…

— dinesh kumar

It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all available incentives.

— Larry Williams

“Programs should be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”

— Anonymous

Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

— Clarence Darrow

The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful…

— Richard Stallman

I got my first computer at the age of 6. To me, it was magic. By the time I was 12, I…

— Tobias Lutke

The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great…

— William Gibson

For us to create unique experiences that other companies cannot, the best possible option for us is to be able to develop…

— Satoru Iwata

Pop and metal aren't friends. Each knows exactly where the other lives and tries to keep its distance. They choose different streets,…

— Dave Mustaine

“And that was it. The last of them. An entire species represented by a maddened old sewer mage of a man who…

— C. Robert Cargill

Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition

— Marc Andreessen

Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he…

— Erik Naggum

The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank…

— Daniel H. Pink

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not…

— Adrienne Rich

In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises…

— Tony Hoare

The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the]…

— Akbar Ganji

“A network can be destroyed by noises that attack and transform it, if the codes in place are unable to normalize and…

— Jacques Attali

“Over the past four decades, much evidence has accumulated suggesting that responsiveness — a software application’s ability to keep up with users…

— Jeff Johnson

“Over the past decade Stallman created a powerful editing program called Gnu-Emacs. But Gnu’s much more than just a text editor. It’s…

— Clifford Stoll

“Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every…

— William T. Vollmann

But if you kept thinking about a fight you’d lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again.

— Karen Russell

Above all, I believe every child, no matter their ZIP code or their parents' jobs, deserves access to a quality education.

— Betsy DeVos

I've always wanted to have some sort of academy or program that links education and basketball.

— Luol Deng

“Marketing thought the programmers were lazy; the programmers thought marketing was stupid,”

— Leslie Berlin

Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.

— Fred Brooks

I went on to host a kids' program from when I was around 10 until 15. In some ways I'm a child actor.

— Michiel Huisman

Code as if the next guy to maintain your code is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live.

— Kathy Sierra

The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.

— George Brandis

Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel…

— Richard Stallman

I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue.

— Trevor Noah

The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

— Phillips Brooks

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

— Red Adair

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

— Eric S. Raymond

Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.

— Derek Sivers

TV programmes are so bad these days, even idiots are getting rid of their idiot boxes.

— Steve Fowler