Programming Quotes

653 quotes by 371 authors

Chance favors the prepared mind. — Louis Pasteur
The best book on programming for the layman is 'Alice in Wonderland'; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman. — Alan Perlis
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. — Alan Perlis
It's a dream realized to partner with Oprah and bring scripted programming to OWN. She has accomplished so much with the network, and I'm excited… — Tyler Perry
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. — Laurence J. Peter
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. — Pablo Picasso
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie
My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved… — Dennis Ritchie
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be… — Andy Rooney
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from… — Theodore Roosevelt
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with… — Carl Sagan
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. — Carl Sagan
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. — George Santayana
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had. — Eric Schmidt
Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the… — Tom Shales
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious. — Bjarne Stroustrup
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate… — Bjarne Stroustrup
The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds… — Charles R. Swindoll
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. — Ken Thompson
I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not… — Linus Torvalds

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