Programming Quotes

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Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles â€¦ they all sounded to me like… — Joel Spolsky
Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures. — Douglas Crockford
JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language. — Douglas Crockford
You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming. — Marshall Sylver
Self-programming, what you believe and affirm about yourself, is the basis of who you are. — Marshall Sylver
In programming, itâ€™s often the buts in the specification that kill you. — Boris Beizer
An interactive debugger is an outstanding example of what is not needed - it encourages trial-and-error hacking rather than systematic design, and also hides marginal… — Harlan Mills
Every reader should ask himself periodically â€œToward what end, toward what end?â€â€”but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of… — Alan Perlis
Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident. If we want our young women to retain these traits into adulthood, a great option… — Susan Wojcicki
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining — Bjarne Stroustrup
Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are… — Rob Pike
The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code, — Douglas McIlroy
Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do everything.' But it's… — Yukihiro Matsumoto
There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming. — Rasmus Lerdorf
I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems — Rasmus Lerdorf
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites… — Carl Sagan
Embryos turn into babies; buds turn into blossoms; acorns turn into oak trees. The same programming that exists in them exists in each of us… — Marianne Williamson
Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious... Patients are people who have had too much programming - so much… — Milton H. Erickson
In recent years we've seen an explosion of creative programming, and I think it represents a third golden age of television because the creators have… — Kevin Spacey
The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for… — Timothy Leary

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