Quotes About Programming

And as a result, the effects of this new experience override the residue of the neural programming and emotional conditioning from the past experience. This

It's not the gene that creates disease but the environment that programs our genes to create disease

Most automatic behaviors that priming elicits are produced by unconscious or subconscious programming, which, for the most part, is happening behind the scenes of our awareness. Are we, then, primed to behave unconsciously all day long—without our even knowing it?

Because feelings are the modus operandi of the body, the emotions you continually feel based on your automatic thinking will condition the body to memorize those emotions that are equal to the unconscious hardwired mind and brain. That means that the conscious mind isn't really in charge. The body has subconsciously been programmed and conditioned, in a very real way, to become its own mind.

Many rookie software managers think that they can "motivate" their programmers to work faster by giving them nice, "tight" (unrealistically short) schedules. I think this kind of motivation is brain-dead. When I'm behind schedule, I feel doomed and depressed and unmotivated. When I'm working ahead of schedule, I'm cheerful and productive. The schedule is not the place to play psychological games.

Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive life. The process of converting one correct program into a different correct program is extremely challenging.

I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense.

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

The teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.

It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

Beta. Software undergoes beta testing shortly before it's released. Beta is Latin for "still doesn't work."

if(pot.coffee=EMPTY) {programmer->;brain=OFF};

Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.

Computers, huh? I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes.... I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys.

BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.

COFFEE.EXE missing. Insert cup and press any key.

Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

Shell to DOS... Come in DOS, do you copy Shell to DOS...

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland but that's because it's the best book on anything for layman.