Programming Quotes

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Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. — Linus Torvalds
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. — Linus Torvalds
The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. — Linus Torvalds
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human. — Alan Turing
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. — Alan Turing
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. — Alan Turing
I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable… — J C Watts
Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples. — Niklaus Wirth
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off. — Dick Wolf
The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house. — Dick Wolf
The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities… — Dick Wolf
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. — Virginia Woolf
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. — Steve Wozniak
What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and… — Steve Wozniak
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. — Frank Lloyd Wright
We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political… — Henry B. Eyring
Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us. — Chris Hardwick
Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz. — Chris Hardwick
Our mandate at Nerdist is that we only get involved with nice people around things that we love. We have the luxury of being in… — Chris Hardwick

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