Programming Quotes

653 quotes by 371 authors

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of… — Stephen Wolfram
Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than… — Gwen Ifill
Apple likes me, but they strongly prefer my money. — Tom Anderson
For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction. — Norman Ralph Augustine
I tell people to start implementing when they are pretty sure there aren't more important stories out there. An iteration's worth of data is worth… — Kent Beck
Responsible Development is the style of development I aspire to now. It can be summarized by answering the question, How would I develop if it… — Kent Beck
Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These lead me to… — Kent Beck
I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies! — Kent Beck
Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility. — Kent Beck
Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling. — Amar Bose
If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person who is doing it! — Amar Bose
I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment? — Lewis Carroll
I believe any malevolent supercivilisation would have rapidly self-destructed as we may be in the process of doing ourselves. If we do have contact, physical… — Arthur C. Clarke
No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens. — Arthur C. Clarke
If we can't program it, we can't understand it. — David Deutsch
If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start… — Edsger Dijkstra
Programming in Basic causes brain damage. — Edsger Dijkstra
Beauty is our business. — Edsger Dijkstra
Write a paper promising salvation, make it a structured something or a virtual something, or abstract, distributed or higher-order or applicative and you can almost… — Edsger Dijkstra
I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist. — Edsger Dijkstra

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