Quotes About Programming

I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.

And do you know who wrote much of the software that allows you to access the Internet? Bill Joy.

Bill Joy got an extraordinary, early opportunity to learn programming on a time-share system as a freshman in college, in 1971. Bill Gates got to do real-time programming as an eighth grader in 1968.

To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

But while you can always write 'spaghetti code' in a procedural language, object-oriented languages used poorly can add meatballs to your spaghetti.

At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats. • The Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985 So

We write code, which communicates our intentions to a machine and documents our thinking for future generations of developers.

Just as woodworkers sometimes build jigs to guide the construction of complex pieces, programmers can write code that itself writes code.

As programmers, we collect, organize, maintain, and harness knowledge. We document knowledge in specifications, we make it come alive in running code, and we use it to provide the checks needed during testing.

Janine took a large bite of waffle. "The usual," she replied. "School." "You are enjoying your computer studies?" "Oh, immensely," said Janine. "Programming is so logical. And once you master the basics, it can be … um …" "Boring?" I suggested. "Thrilling." Janine gave me a dirty look.

Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing not to mix pickles with oatmeal. You just know." "My mother," I told him, pushing the cart farther up the aisle as he lagged along beside, taking long, loping steps, "doesn't even like scrambled eggs. She only eats eggs Benedict.

The thoughts you allow into your head are the code that programs your mind and body.

There was something deranged and distinctly midwestern about a station that programmed The Exorcist three days prior to Christmas.

If you're not at all interested in performance, shouldn't you be in the Python room down the hall?)

std::bind(setAlarm,             std::bind(std::plus<>(),                       std::bind(steady_clock::now),                       1h),             _1,             30s);

std::bind can express the same thing, but the construct is an example of job security through code obscurity:

It's not the way Zane looks, David, she said, her voice trembling with anger. It's because he makes me bubbly, and because we took a lot of risks together. It could just as easily be me lying there, and he would stay with me if it was. It's just programming! No. It's because I love him.

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

It's just programming No. It's because I love him

Maybe human beings are programmed...to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad...

You don't believe all that crap, do you - that there's one way to look, and everyone is programmed to agree on it?