Book Quote by Alan Turing Download Open image “Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.” — Alan Turing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Example Practice Programming Skills
Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
There is one very good reason to learn programming, but it has nothing to do with preparing for high-tech careers or with making sure… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
People sometimes have a view of programming that is something solitary and very technical. But programming is among the most creative, expressive, and social… — Craig Federighi Copy Share Image
The best book on programming for the layman is 'Alice in Wonderland'; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes in programs… — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge. — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no-one can imagine — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is those that nobody imagines anything of that does the things that nobody can imagne. — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained. — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
