Programming Quotes

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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. — Francis Bacon
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
They know enough who know how to learn. — Henry Adams
Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet. — Scott Adams
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. — Scott Adams
I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings.… — Glenn Beck
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature. — Niels Bohr
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves -… — Ray Bradbury
I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. — Ray Bradbury
It is tact that is golden, not silence. — Samuel Butler
Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can,… — John Carmack
All hope abandon, ye who enter here! — Dante Alighieri
Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming. — P.J. O'Rourke
I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after you make a comfortable living, how much more… — Craig Newmark
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. — Edsger Dijkstra
When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop. — Alan Perlis
Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized. — Ken Keyes Jr.
All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your… — Ken Keyes Jr.

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