Programming Quotes · Page 55

You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.

— Richard R. Nelson

I ain't trying to keep up with the trends - the hats, the hair colours, the dress codes.

— Rick Ross

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

— Tim Berners-Lee

Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are…

— Jane McGonigal

I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or…

— Will Patton

There really, truly is a code that rodeo men and women have you can't find anywhere else. There really is a code.…

— Scott Glenn

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

— Alan Perlis

“The grandeur of space, dig it. Zillions of stars, each one gets its own pixel.” “Awesome.” “Maybe, but it’s code’s all it…

— Thomas Pynchon

Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position…

— Brit Hume

It's a dream realized to partner with Oprah and bring scripted programming to OWN. She has accomplished so much with the network,…

— Tyler Perry

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

— Niklaus Wirth

I would definitely like to work at Microsoft, since software development and exploring new technologies has always been my passion, and Microsoft…

— Arfa Karim

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn…

— Jacques Barzun

The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether…

— Charles Stross

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible…

— Mahatma Gandhi

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear…

— Joseph Campbell

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or…

— Tim Berners-Lee

“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

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

“Any attempt to fix it with minimum effort will repair the local and obvious, but unless the structure is pure or the…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

I'd argue that Apple's site is every bit as complex as a npeswaper site -- probably more so. Hundreds of current hardware…

— Adriana

I wish that there was a program in college that taught you what to do about getting head shots, how to get…

— Mikaela Hoover

“The usual goal in the typing monkeys thought experiment is the production of the complete works of Shakespeare. Having a spell checker…

— Bartosz Milewski

“To find why that happen and why this is happening, you should start from the beginning the problem comes from the beginning…

— Deyth Banger

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not…

— Paul Graham

“When people inexplicably dissapeared into thin air, it was usually because they had a new zip code. Something like 666”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

— Rob Pike

Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it.

— John Updike

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

— Jaron Lanier

We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?

— Jesse Schell

“No more Network reluctance to make a program too entertaining for fear its commercials would pale in comparison.”

— David Foster Wallace

There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers.

— Wesley Snipes

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

— Alan Kay

When I was a first-year in grad school, there were 18 of us in the Ph.D. program, and four of us were…

— Donna Strickland

Biology is the most powerful technology ever created. DNA is software, protein are hardware, cells are factories.

— Arvind Gupta

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.

— Seth Gordon

I live by the code 'Kill them with kindness, blood everywhere;' for me, it's always about being the nicest kind of guy.

— Lemon Andersen

Whether you draw diagrams that generate code or you type at a browser, you are coding.

— Kent Beck

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

— Gary Oldman

There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.

— Anonymous