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Quotes About Programming

En inan?lmaz ?eylere bile inanmaya programlanm???z ve bunlar haf?zam?za bir kez kaz?nd? m?, onlar? silmeye çal??an?n vay haline
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We all go out programmed in some way: to please and cling to the first kind person who promises to love and protect us; to find the perfect parent and worship that person totally; to be extremely careful of attaching to anyone; to attach to someone just like the person who did not want us the first time (to see if we can change them this time) or who insisted we never grow up; or just to find another safe harbor like the one we enjoyed as children.
~ Elaine N. Aron
A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.
~ Arthur Bloch
In this beginner-friendly book, called 'Learn to Program with Minecraft,' you will learn how to do cool things in Minecraft using the Python programming language. No prior programming experience is needed.
~ Mark Frauenfelder
I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly.
~ Shawn Fanning
I was raised on NBC television.
~ Dan Harmon
I ran development and programming at Disney TV animation. We did a lot of cartoons.
~ Roy Price
Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
I believe coding is fundamental to literacy in the future.
~ Craig Federighi
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
~ Alan Perlis
I knew I wanted to make good television, create content that's massy, and provide programming that would invite families to come together and witness these 'reel' lives.
~ Ekta Kapoor
With a strong foundation in scripted programming firmly established by 'Army Wives' and 'Drop Dead Diva,' Lifetime is aggressively expanding its drama series development plate with powerful programs from creative auspices who have strong pedigrees in producing stand-out programming.
~ Nancy Dubuc
My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.
~ Dennis Ritchie
Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.
~ Yukihiro Matsumoto
I've enjoyed programming on NPR, but 'we're broke' and therefore all spending must be reduced.
~ Jaime Herrera Beutler
Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.
~ Joshua Foer
Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.
~ Douglas Coupland
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.
~ John Romero
A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.
~ Paul Graham
Studying neuro-linguistic programming is what teaches you how to implant and extract thoughts. Mixing psychology, hypnotism and magic somewhat goes into this area called mentalism, which is what I mostly do. It's magic of the mind.
~ Keith Barry
That voice you hear in your head, the one whispering that you need to add some comments, may just be your program crying out to be rewritten.
~ Russ Olsen
It comes down to this: Ruby is a language for grown-ups; it gives you the tools for writing clear and concise code. It's up to you to use them.
~ Russ Olsen
He thought about hacking in and recoding the program so that when the axe came down you got the
~ Margaret Atwood
A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.
~ Joseph Weizenbaum