Programming Quotes · Page 86

The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].

— Tom Duff

“Brook’s Law: “Adding more programmers to a late project makes it later.”

— Eric S. Raymond

What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things…

— Tamora Pierce

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

— Brandon Sanderson

There should be a tacit code or understanding among privileged people not to endorse things that give others an inferiority complex.

— Abhay Deol

NASA is moving the space program to Starkville because it has no atmosphere.

— Skip Bertman

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

— Anatole France

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that…

— Frederic Bastiat

I think Nintendo is fortunate, having been in this business for over 30 years, to really understand the dynamics and recognize that…

— Reggie Fils-Aime

I tell people to start implementing when they are pretty sure there aren't more important stories out there. An iteration's worth of…

— Kent Beck

“The TV is showing another of those reality things, a program that pimps a bunch of good-looking young women to a hunky…

— Stephen King

Microsoft unleashed something called Bob, a program that's supposed to make Windows easier to use. Until a Bob helper is born, you…

— Josh Quittner

Finding a programmer to work with if you don't already know one will be a challenge. Merely judging if a programmer is…

— Jessica Livingston

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more…

— Steve Ballmer

“While lower-skill occupations will no doubt continue to be affected, a great many college-educated, white-collar workers are going to discover that their…

— Martin Ford

“(Today a car is probably the most highly regulated product you can buy outside of a prescription drug, its every nook and…

— Jason Fagone

...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater…

— Donald Knuth

The Republican candidates are talking about ways to transition this program and it is a monstrous lie. It is a ponzi scheme…

— Rick Perry

“Too often, the notion of progress is used as a code word for perfection, the chain of being in a different guise.…

— Steve Jones

Well, I know from some of my own experience, and many of my friends' experiences, when going through that sort of program.…

— Drea de Matteo

I do think younger women have to figure out how to combine their own sense of style with what is appropriate and…

— Robin Givhan

An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of…

— Ayn Rand

“Interactions with the world program our physiological and psychological development. Emotional contact is as important as physical contact. The two are quite…

— Gabor Maté

“If capital is what produces a stream of income - and that is a definition no one seems to quarrel with -…

— Walter B. Wriston

I thought having to explain the risibility of gender codes would be mostly behind us by now.

— Zoe Buckman

... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.

— Larry Wall

“You will never be a good Developer or Successor, if you cannot accord with the generation or society.”

— Asherry Magalla

We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.

— Alistair Cockburn

“It was important to us that for a developer, adding production telemetry didn’t feel as difficult as doing a database schema change.”

— Gene Kim

So there’s an . . . an etiquette to raking. Some seducer’s code of honor. Is this what you’re telling me?

— Tessa Dare

At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.

— Walter O'Brien

There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming.

— Rasmus Lerdorf

That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.

— Calvin Johnson

I say what I mean. I don't speak in code. That's why I am a star and ace communicator.

— Rush Limbaugh

Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront.

— John Negroponte

Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting…

— Larry Ellison

Technology can be part of a solution, but it takes far more than software to usher in reform.

— Jenna Wortham

On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I…

— Satoru Iwata

“We are no more qualified to be the stewards or developers of the Earth than are goats to be gardeners.”

— James E. Lovelock

I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.

— Anonymous