Programming Quotes

653 quotes by 371 authors

The television industry claims they are only reflecting society with their programming and have no influence on behavior. If that is the case then why… — Randall Wright
Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do. — Donald Knuth
I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the… — Malcolm Mclaren
We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where… — Rowan Atkinson
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals. — Henry Spencer
In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like… — Iain Banks
I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?'… — Mario Batali
I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together… — Bootsy Collins
My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a… — Bram Cohen
The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off… — Lee Child
I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before… — Jack Dorsey
My first app was released in July or August of 2008. It was a 'fingermill' - a treadmill for your fingers. My level of programming… — Nick D'Aloisio
I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works... Character driven programming! — Tim DeKay
On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the… — Marc Andreessen
Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad… — Larry Wall
The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making. — Edsger Dijkstra
A data structure is just a stupid programming language. — Bill Gosper
A program that produces incorrect results twice as fast is infinitely slower. — John Ousterhout
It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever… — Erik Naggum
Ethernet always wins. — Andy Bechtolsheim

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