Programming Quotes

653 quotes by 371 authors

When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy. — Rob Pike
Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix. — Rob Pike
It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today! — John Carmack
Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic. — Rob Pike
There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection. — Rob Pike
One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it! — John Carmack
We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and… — Tom Van Vleck
The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to… — Eric S. Raymond
Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and… — Anthony Michael Hall
Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news… — Brit Hume
With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time. — Miguel de Icaza
There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do -… — John Maeda
Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I… — Alex Kingston
I skip through the programming to watch the commercials. — Mel Karmazin
In the information age, the barriers [to entry into programming] just aren't there. The barriers are self imposed. If you want to set off and… — John Carmack
Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick — Charles Petzold
I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being… — William Jackson
I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the… — Yukihiro Matsumoto
I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby is designed to make programming… — Yukihiro Matsumoto
Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming… — Yukihiro Matsumoto

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