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- If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
- Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve…
- Porting a Google App Engine app written in Python to Go: Although I'm new to Go I get much quicker results than I've got with…
- Go is most fun I've had with a compiled PL since I've discovered Turbo Pascal as a kid.
- The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s to today's handheld devices. Fundamental…
- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better…
- Over the last 25 years, the American free enterprise system created the most diverse video programming on earth with the best value for the customer.…
- Last year was the fourth or fifth attempt to get fall launched till 'American Idol' comes in January. To be honest, the reality programming we…
- It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.
- Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable
- Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.
- 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,…
- Dakin (to Irwin, his teacher): Do you really believe that, sir, or are you just trying to make us think?
- Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms…
- In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them. Now, however, time-sharing…
- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of which is the…
- Programming is an explanatory activity.
- One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a lot cheaper to…
- We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.
- Once you succeed in writing the programs for [these] complicated algorithms, they usually run extremely fast. The computer doesn't need to understand the algorithm, its…
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- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. — Unknown Author
- There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. — Alan Perlis
- They know enough who know how to learn. — Henry Adams
- I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should… — Ray Bradbury
- Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share… — John Carmack
- Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming. — P.J. O'Rourke