Programming Quotes · Page 60

Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about…

— Bertrand Meyer

The unfolding code of what you really are occurs every time you go to sleep.

— John de Ruiter

Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.

— Xavier Niel

“How can we make sure we wind up behind the right door when the going gets tough? The answer is: craftsmanship.”

— Robert C. Martin

You build a program; culture is what makes it go. You have to invest in that culture every single day, and that's…

— Mike McCarthy

There are many rules for the elderly in the Highway Code. I have one too, and here it is: get a bloody…

— Jeremy Clarkson

You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.

— H. Rap Brown

Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.

— Jim Butcher

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and…

— James Wolcott

Jolt is for Windows programmers. It's typical IBM PC: it goes in brown and comes out yellow. Mountain Dew is for Macintosh…

— Guy Kawasaki

“You know Morse Code?” Avian asked as we walked up. “My grandpa thought it was a fun game when I was little,”…

— Keary Taylor

Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from…

— Mitch Kapor

The tax code is weighted toward the ultra-wealthy and ultra-wealthy corporations and has created an offshore aristocracy of people who can afford…

— Jeff Fortenberry

Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep…

— Bill Gates

Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but…

— Stuart J. Russell

The Jacksonians were libertarians, plain and simple. Their program and ideology were libertarian; they strongly favored free enterprise and free markets, but…

— Murray Rothbard

“Programmer Chris Camfield was in charge of implementing the tactical layer battle mechanics. A lifelong player of pencil-and-paper role-playing games as well…

— Anonymous

“Dagny, there’s nothing of any importance in life—except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will…

— Ayn Rand

“This brings us back to the beginning of the genius code: curiosity. It’s an essential part of becoming more creative. Expand your…

— Sean Patrick

I find that creative streak I think often leads in programmers to be good predictors of where culture as a whole is…

— Tim O'Reilly

[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I love listening to old school stuff. I listen to some new cats out here, but I'm really into, like, Tech N9ne…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

I named my software 'EMAIL,' (a term never used before in the English language), and I even received the first U.S. Copyright…

— Shiva Ayyadurai

Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth…

— Michel de Montaigne

Your adrenaline starts to go when the market opens in the morning. It's like sports programming.

— Sallie Krawcheck

“From outside Italy, dial your international access code, Italy's country code (39) then the number (including the '0').”

— Cristian Bonetto

People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product.

— Linus Torvalds

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

— Larry Niven

Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.

— Don Meyer

Someone will say to me, Oh that's so Jewish to interrupt. I say to myself, okay, is that code for you hate…

— Jill Soloway

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

— Dennis Ritchie

At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.

— Darl McBride

“At a deep level, all code is about communication: expressing ideas about what you want to achieve.”

— Jon Skeet

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

— Donald Knuth

Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.

— Philip Emeagwali

[Nathalie Rykiel] knows by heart the genetic codes of the brand, and she also has a very contemporary and creative opinions about…

— Sonia Rykiel

If the nuclear program is indeed meant only for civil purposes, then it is wrong to impose sanctions.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.

— Grover Norquist

If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category.

— Lecrae

Hasn't it got, like, defense codes and things? Can't we just launch a nuclear bomb at them?

— Rose Tyler