Quotes About Programming

ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

One reason people might prize socially constructed reinforcement over intrinsic reinforcement is sociocultural programming.

More likely, he would die before ever getting it. But he wanted to survive—that urge was part of his programming. It was what defined him as human-equivalent and therefore deserving autonomy. The bot had no choice but to fight for his life. Still, to Paladin, it didn't feel like a lack of choice. It felt like hope.

Is that really what you want, or is that your programming?" Bug challenged. Actin sent a series of rude emojis. "It's what I want. It's my programming. I can't possibly know, and it's a completely uninteresting question to me. I don't even believe in consciousness. When I've got my autonomy, I'll still be programmed, and I'll still need a job researching brain interfaces.

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.

Fox does the NFL a lot like they program the rest of the network. There's sort of a locker room sense of humor that prevails. With ESPN, it's more like a pat-you-on-the-back kind of comedy. I mean, they'll all get on each other a little bit, but it's never mean-spirited.

It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.

The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.

You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.

I think every theater in America wants a younger audience... and you can't just hope to have a younger audience, you have to program things that audience is going to connect with.

I don't program or code or anything like that.

No matter what, the way to learn to program is to write code and rewrite it and see it used and rewrite again. Reading other people's code is invaluable as well.

We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.

Making games look more photorealistic is not the only means of improving the game experience. I know, on this point, I risk being misunderstood, so remember, I am a man who once programmed a baseball game with no baseball players. If anyone appreciates graphics, it's me!

Even what people take to be their most personal desires are usually programmed by the imagined order.

Synthesizers can be programmed with more imagination than a real, 'human' performance. It's a joyful thing.

I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

Radio is so heavily programmed; you have to fit into a certain box. So it's harder for anything different to get through.

I think the Norweigan model of municipalities owning cinemas and being programmed by people who know about films is a good one.

My dad programmed me to be aggressive as a young player. He always told me to go to the rim. Live in the paint.