Programming Quotes

653 quotes by 371 authors

Look, I think liberals have reasonable gripes with Fox News. It does lean to the right, primarily in its opinion programming but also in its… — Jonah Goldberg
The average person is unaware that he or she is living out a negative destiny according to his or her past (childhood) programming, preserving his… — Robert W. Firestone
The students in your youth ministry donâ€™t need your clever ideas and great programming skills. They need a living modelâ€”a man or woman of God… — Doug Fields
Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took… — Marissa Mayer
Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft. — Richard Stallman
I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy. — Eric Allman
GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers. — Raymond Simard
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven — Charles Petzold
Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system. — Niklaus Wirth
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations… — Fred Brooks
The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes… — Fred Brooks
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. — Alan Perlis
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn. — Alan Perlis
Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish… — Nicholas Negroponte
Programming is usually taught by examples. — Niklaus Wirth
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. — Alan Perlis
Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create… — Charles W. Pickering
To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and… — Cliff Shaw
I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to… — Burt Ward
The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television. — Anson Mount

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