Quotes About Programming

The Difference Between DispatcherTimer and ThreadPoolTimer

Our consciousness is programmed. We see things a certain way from a young age - we're programmed to keep doing them that way. Then you have to spend adulthood learning how to overcome it, to read out the programs. Try to create. I want to tell people to create. Just start by creating your day. Then create your life.

PL1, "the fatal disease", belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.

The Scriptures tell us rightly that input determines output — that our programming determines production.

After graduate school, I joined Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island as an assistant professor, but I continued to program in addition to teaching and working on research. I built a program that crawled job boards to determine which skills employers value, which helped Johnson & Wales explore ways to improve its curriculum.

Listen, I'm a big fan of everything on NBC. When I think of comedy on TV, I really think of NBC.

Blame me for having to type the backslash in DOS.

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.

Once you have a computer that can do a few things - strictly speaking, one that has a certain 'sufficient set' of basic procedures - it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis of the great principle of 'Universality'.

Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them.

Writing concurrent programs in Java keeps getting easier, but writing concurrent programs that are correct and fast is as difficult as it ever was.

premature optimization is the root of all evil. —Donald E. Knuth [

In other words, it is about 50 times slower to create and destroy objects with finalizers.

In fact, two-thirds of the uses of the close method in the Java libraries were wrong in 2007.

When used to best advantage, exceptions can improve a program's readability, reliability, and maintainability. When used improperly, they can have the opposite effect.

A second advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they are not required to create a new object each time they're invoked.

Moving like a rat in its maze. Programmed. Performing a function that it was not capable of understanding, on behalf of people whose entire existence was outside its knowledge, detected only as feet occasionally planted in its way.

programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

Using JavaScript Error objects to reject promises can capture the call stack for troubleshooting

From our simplest habits to our most destructive behaviors, our actions are the direct results of our mental programming. Both psychologists and biblical scholars agree that it is almost impossible for individuals to behave inconsistently with what they believe about themselves. Your mind will naturally go in the direction of your most prevalent thoughts.

You probably don't want to change the meaning of true halfway through your program (except perhaps if you're a politician).

a way, processes in Elixir are like objects in an object-oriented system (but they have a better sense of humor).

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.