Programming Quotes

653 quotes by 371 authors

Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not… — Niklaus Wirth
Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and… — Niklaus Wirth
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. — Niklaus Wirth
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. — Jamie Zawinski
The Internet is corporations all the way down. — Ethan Zuckerman
BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing. — Seymour Papert
The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML,… — Dennis Ritchie
Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. — Donald Knuth
The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself. — Amari Cooper
When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is nothing more precise… — Amari Cooper
I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the… — Ken Keyes Jr.
The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it. — Marianne Williamson
Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming… — T. Harv Eker
My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impendence mismatch we have between programming languages,… — Anders Hejlsberg
Your mind is programmable â€“ if youâ€™re not programming your mind, someone else will program it for you. — Jeremy Hammond
MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as… — Brit Hume
Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances. — Linus Torvalds
If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support. — Robert W. Floyd
When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings are going to… — Donald Knuth
Linear programming can be viewed as part of a great revolutionary development which has given mankind the ability to state general goals and to lay… — George Dantzig

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