Programming Quotes

653 quotes by 371 authors

640K ought to be enough for anybody. — Bill Gates
I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming. — Kathy Griffin
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. — Confucius
I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a… — Francis Ford Coppola
It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any… — Richard Dawkins
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated… — Edsger Dijkstra
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever… — Edsger Dijkstra
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. — Edsger Dijkstra
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. — Edsger Dijkstra
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a… — Edsger Dijkstra
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original… — Freeman Dyson
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. — Paul R. Ehrlich
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. — George Eliot
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work.… — Richard P. Feynman
When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need… — Jim Henson
NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember… — Jim Henson
It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd… — Steve Jobs
Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls. — Rashida Jones
To teach is to learn twice. — Joseph Joubert

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