Programs Quotes

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Thereâ€™s a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if youâ€™re a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you… — Dani Shapiro
Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. — Edsger Dijkstra
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each… — Edsger Dijkstra
Portability is for people who cannot write new programs — Linus Torvalds
Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition... — Mitch McConnell
God help us if we cannot sacrifice our percentages and our programs when He has called us to sacrifice our lives. — Daniel Palmer
I am an avid supporter of PETA and all animals as well as animal rights programs. — Corey Feldman
[The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension fund… — Paul Krugman
Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books,… — Ralph Nader
You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs… — Bill Budge
To win in the game of life, we all need both a healthy mind and body. By involving children in the fun and dynamic fitness… — Digger Phelps
It's cool when people ask me about my gold medal and they say it will last forever. I will try to promote skiing and show… — Julia Mancuso
Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work. — Rodney Brooks
While spay neuter is important, our goal has never been no more births, even though reducing birth rates might help. Our goal has been and… — Nathan Winograd
If every animal shelter in the United States embraced the No Kill philosophy and the programs and services that make it possible, we would save… — Nathan Winograd
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… — Robert Fano
Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify… — David Gelernter
To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself. The… — Jim Horning
...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every… — Donald Knuth
Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with the other words… — James Lovelock

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