Programming Quotes

653 quotes by 371 authors

Culture is your operating system. — Terence McKenna
The current operating system [culture] is flawed. It actually has bugs in it that generate contradictions. We're cutting the earth from beneath our own feet.… — Terence McKenna
In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system. — Robert Metcalfe
I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight opinions, not articles… — Bertrand Meyer
Writing a class without its contract would be similar to producing an engineering component (electrical circuit, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip, bridge, engine...) without… — Bertrand Meyer
Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we… — Bertrand Meyer
Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library class, they suddenly experience what… — Bertrand Meyer
Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot. — Bertrand Meyer
As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9 users. But now a 10th… — Bertrand Meyer
Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to! — Bertrand Meyer
Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions,… — Marvin Minsky
But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does what it is works but what it does when it's stuck. — Marvin Minsky
Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth of the new… — Michel de Montaigne
The number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double in about 18 months. — Gordon Moore
If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it. — Edward A. Murphy, Jr.
Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other… — Jakob Nielsen
My laptop has freed me to travel. — Steven Pinker
Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives - leads us to lock… — Maria Popova
The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better. — Eric S. Raymond
When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor. — Eric S. Raymond

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