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Quotes About Programming

Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
~ Bjarne Stroustrup
When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, 'Convert this to Android format.'
~ Larry Ellison
The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.
~ John Carmack
Tools are not neutral. The computer is not a neutral tool.
~ Ellen Ullman
Most developer tools try to shield you from actually writing code in constructing the GUI bits or the database bits. Yet when you do write code you usually get glass teletypes where high tech is keyword coloring.
~ James Gosling
Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.
~ Geoff Mulgan
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
~ Seth Lloyd
Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.
~ Seth Lloyd
In many schools today, the phrase "computer-aided instruction" means making the computer teach the child. One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer and, in doing so, both acquires a sense of mastery over a piece of the most modern and powerful technology and establishes an intimate contact with some of the deepest ideas from science, from mathematics, and from the art of intellectual model building.
~ Seymour Papert
We have been trying to achieve our goals with our own onboard computer pre-programmed to hold us back!
~ Shad Helmstetter
Your brain grows and changes based on feedback. What you tell it, changes it. And while it's rewiring itself, your brain then feeds those new programs, those new pictures of yourself, back to you. It's a feedback "loop." What you put in, you get back out, in a continuous "neural activity feedback loop.
~ Shad Helmstetter
our self-talk vocabulary, Level 4 is the kind of self-talk that is needed most. It is at this level that you are painting a completed new picture of yourself, the way you really wanted to be, handing it to your subconscious, and saying, "This is the 'me' I want you to create. Forget all that bad programming I gave you in the past. This is your new program. Now, let's get to work at it.
~ Shad Helmstetter
But that's not the answer. The person who receives better, healthier, more positive programs will, over time, virtually always do better than the person who receives unhealthy, negative programs.
~ Shad Helmstetter
Of all of the ways we get programmed, it is our self-talk that plays the single most important role in the programming of the brain. If you have the wrong self-talk, your life will be a struggle, and cannot work well. If you use the right self-talk, you will wire your brain in the best possible way—and the results will show in your life.
~ Shad Helmstetter
Research in neuroscience has shown us how the brain gets programmed, and people want to know how they can use that knowledge to change their programming, and improve their lives.
~ Shad Helmstetter
1. Programming creates beliefs. 2. Beliefs create attitudes. 3. Attitudes create feelings. 4. Feelings determine actions. 5. Actions create results.
~ Shad Helmstetter
Those who appear to be "luckier" than the rest have actually only gotten better mental programming to begin with, or have learned how to erase their old negative programming and replace it with something better. ?In
~ Shad Helmstetter
Programming creates beliefs. 2. Beliefs create attitudes. 3. Attitudes create feelings. 4. Feelings determine actions. 5. Actions create results.
~ Shad Helmstetter
What you believe about anything is not a measure of its correctness. What you believe about anything is a measure of the programs you have that support your belief.
~ Shad Helmstetter
That's how the brain works. If you want to manage yourself in a better way, and change your results, you can do so at any time you choose. Start with the first step. Change your programming.
~ Shad Helmstetter
self-talk is a way to override our past negative programming by erasing or replacing it with conscious, positive new directions. Self-talk is a practical way to live our lives by active intent rather than by passive acceptance.
~ Shad Helmstetter
Remember, the subconscious mind will believe anything you tell it if you tell it long enough and strongly enough.
~ Shad Helmstetter
The result of that kind of programming is that we end up where we are today, with our brains improperly wired, or often wired to work against us.
~ Shad Helmstetter
The first was that I would never again give in to negative programming, of any kind, in my own life, if I could help it in any way. The second decision I made in this area was that I would research the concept of self-talk and programming, and explore the science behind the concept.
~ Shad Helmstetter