Quotes About Programming

The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.

Programming will aid a person in developing their mind and will aid their meditation. I find that people who have pursued programming are doing much better in their meditation.

Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design!

That's one of those things about being a computer science major: Valentine's Day is just another day.

Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.

We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.

The time it will take to finish a programming project is twice as long as the time you've allotted for it.

When today's executives regard programming the same as manufacturing, they imagine that reducing the cost of programming is similarly simple and effective. Unfortunately, those rules don't apply anymore.

The intractability of the software-construction process—particularly the high cost of programming and the low quality of interaction—is simply not a technical problem. It is the result of business practices imposed on a discipline—software programming—for which they are obsolete.

The key to solving the problem is interaction design before programming.

Programmers become so familiar with code reuse that they often copy existing techniques even when they aren't actually copying code.

neuro-linguistic programming

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.

Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

Joy and serenity are not slavishly tied to our physiology. We are not programmed neurons over which we have no control. We are collaborators in the generation of our thoughts and emotions.

Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.

I typed my whole syntax table into memory. I said, "I'll just follow along in memory and, if what he types fits the syntax table, then whenever he hits return, I know all the elements he typed in." I just output a list of little tokens that represented what had been typed in, if it matched the table. This was just an idea I had, not knowing how other people did it. I don't know to this day how compilers are written.

Fiddling with a program until it appears to work is a reliable way of obtaining a program that almost works

Programmers need to learn about the business problem that needs to be solved.

Code is there to explain the comments to the computer.

However, for programmers, combining rich, flexible human thought with the rigid constraints of a digital computer exposes the power and the deepest flaws of both.

When naming things, you're constantly looking for ways of clarifying what you mean, and that act of clarification will lead you to a better understanding of your code as you write it.

Churches for churched people obsess over the most frivolous, inconsequential things. It's why you dread your board meetings, your elder meetings, and your committee meetings. You rarely talk about anything important. You're managing found people. I know you care about un-found people in your heart. But do you care in your schedule, your programming, your preaching style, or your budget?