Programming Quotes

653 quotes by 371 authors

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning. — Nicholas Negroponte
You are not in the world...the world is in you," what did he mean? [That is, you are not in the world," that is, there… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Most of the media bullshit you about who they are. We donâ€™t. Weâ€™re not programming to conservatives, weâ€™re just not eliminating their point of view. — Roger Ailes
I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me… — Roger Ailes
The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change… — Hal Abelson
We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion that… — Hal Abelson
Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it. — Alfred Aho
Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem,… — Caroline Alexander
I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as… — John Backus
I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties,… — Jacques Barzun
The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do… — Jacques Barzun
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. Teaching may… — Jacques Barzun
Dakin (to Irwin, his teacher): Do you really believe that, sir, or are you just trying to make us think? — Anthony Bennett
Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build. — Fred Brooks
The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is… — Fred Brooks
Successful software always gets changed. — Fred Brooks
The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the… — John Carmack
In a way, math isn't the art of answering mathematical questions, it is the art of asking the right questions, the questions that give you… — Gregory Chaitin
The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in. — Andrei Codrescu
Question authority; but, raise your hand first. — Alan Dershowitz

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