Code Quote by Charles Petzold Download Open image “Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick” — Charles Petzold ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Code Computers Eating Machines Programming Toothpicks
Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is,… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
“In 1948, while working for Bell Telephone Laboratories, he published a paper in the Bell System Technical Journal entitled "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
MIDI made a natural transition to the PC. The MIDI messages that make up a musical composition can be saved as MIDI files, which… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display is yours… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
Many MIDI files contain entire musical compositions. Because MIDI supports only 16 channels, however, no more than 16 different instruments can play at any… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
Some programs - especially games - require that your system be set to a particular color depth and resolution. Often such special settings are… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is no secret that I have read 'The Da Vinci Code' several times. I genuinely believe that 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I loved 'Chicago Code;' I watched that a lot. It was great because it really captured the city - I'm from Chicago, too. — Jessy Schram Copy Share Image
I kind of pride myself on coming onto things that are well-oiled machines and finding a way to bring what I bring and fit… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
When we`re done simplifying the tax code, getting the lobbyist carve outs our of the tax code, lowering our rates and letting people have… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The Cheney team had, for example, technological supremacy over the National Security Council staff. That is to say, they could read their e-mails. I… — Lawrence Wilkerson Copy Share Image
[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom,… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image