Programming Quotes
653 quotes by 371 authors
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Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.
— Hayley Mills
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The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't…
— Hayley Mills
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Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.
— Harold Morowitz
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You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.
— Richard R. Nelson
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A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.
— Seymour Papert
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My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics,…
— Seymour Papert
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A class, in Java, is where we teach objects how to behave.
— Richard E. Pattis
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Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed.
— Richard E. Pattis
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Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.
— Richard E. Pattis
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The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes in programs or…
— Richard E. Pattis
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The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for the successful evolution…
— Richard E. Pattis
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The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location.
— Richard E. Pattis
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When teaching a rapidly changing technology, perspective is more important than content.
— Richard E. Pattis
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When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability. The result, after…
— Richard E. Pattis
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
— Alan Perlis
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A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
— Alan Perlis
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Any noun can be verbed.
— Alan Perlis
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I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of…
— Alan Perlis
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting…
— Alan Perlis
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Optimization hinders evolution.
— Alan Perlis
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