Programming Quotes · Page 51

Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture.

— Winston Damarillo

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

— Jessica Livingston

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

— Edsger Dijkstra

“I mean, that was the code, wasn’t it? Single girls and taken guys weren’t allowed to be friends. The leash always got…

— Carrie Butler

“The doors to parenthood are accessible to all who know the codes and have the right keys.”

— Fadi Hattendorf

Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.

— Anonymous

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

— Alan Kay

If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.

— Jon Stewart

My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers…

— Bre Pettis

“A program can only do what it's programmed to do, to the letter of the law. Unfortunately, what's written doesn't always coincide…

— Anonymous

Well, I had started a program which is even longer running than this one in 1967 which was a jazz program called…

— Humphrey Lyttelton

“Virginia’s 1705 code mandated that planters provide freed White servants with fifty acres of land. The resulting White prosperity was then attributed…

— Ibram X. Kendi

The Highway Code can't be that difficult to understand, and yet my brain seems to treat it as a set of nuclear…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

We don't have rules that people can't use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible. We certainly don't want them to…

— Nick Saban

Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but…

— Barton Gellman

I love making things, like software, and films, and laughter. And working with Gus Silber, to make the Funny Business book, has…

— Ronnie Apteker

We really believe that we can bring about changes in the tax code that will make America more attractive for investment and…

— Mike Pence

For most of my life I've liked to pretend I live in a starship. Punching in fake codes to get into doorways…

— Reggie Watts

So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in,…

— Edsger Dijkstra

“The very purpose of designing the Temple of Jerusalem as a series of ever more restrictive ingressions was to maintain the priestly…

— Reza Aslan

I remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand people's marginalization from what the art subculture…

— Barbara Kruger

“Words are useful, sir. That's from the communicating point of view. They come into their own then. When you think about it,…

— Bill James

Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio…

— William A. Dembski

The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of…

— Ayn Rand

It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

— Philip Emeagwali

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.

— Anonymous

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

— Max Born

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

— Richard Stallman

The cost of taxpayer compliance with [the tax code] is over $80 billion per year, more than eight times the cost of…

— Charles O. Rossotti

Judge [Samuel] Alito, I'll tell you the same thing I told John Roberts. I expect you to adhere to the Code of…

— Jon Kyl

If you're masochistic enough to program in ADA, we're not going to stop you.

— Matt Welsh

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

— Edward Abbey

“when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.”

— Why The Lucky Stiff

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

— Brian Kernighan

GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.

— Raymond Simard

When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing…

— Martin Garrix

When your dad is a computer programmer, you get all sorts of T-shirts with sayings like this :) hahahahaha

— Meeee

As an ex-programmer, I'm still just curious about how the brain functions, how that flow of information really happens.

— Paul Allen

I ran development and programming at Disney TV animation. We did a lot of cartoons.

— Roy Price

I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.

— William Gibson