Quotes About Programming

Rather than modifying her personality by adjusting her base programming, she wanted to do so naturally, by simply considering the ramifications of her thoughts and actions. Looking down on Stanley, to her, was essentially a form of racism; the last thing she wanted was to consider herself a racist of any kind, but defeating it inside her own personality meant learning, not reprogramming.

The biggest part of your overall greatness while in this world solely depends on your programming, Positive programming attracts positive into your life while negative programming will always attract negative into your life

Objetos são abstrações de procedimento. Threads são abstrações de agendamento.

Man is a hostage to the cage of cultural programing and the mass hallucination of the propagandist's narrative illusion.

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

Why doesn't anyone turn on this Improbability Drive thing?" he said. "We could probably reach that." "What are you, crazy?" said Zaphod. "Without proper programming anything could happen.

He wanted something that nobody other than the computer would notice: that was the bit that took thirty seconds. The thing that took three minutes thirty was programming the computer not to notice that it had noticed anything. It had to want not to know about what Ford was up to, and then he could safely leave the computer to rationalize its own defenses against the information's ever emerging.

classic example of what we programmers call emergent behavior.

Do you know what you sound like?' said Mrs. Oliver. 'A computer. You know. You're programming yourself. That's what they call it, isn't it? I mean you're feeding all these things into yourself all day and then you're going to see what comes out.

Eric Raymond says, "Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to reuse.

When programmers speak of "computer literacy," they are drawing red lines around ethnic groups, too, yet few have pointed this out.

Homo logicus are driven by an irresistible desire to understand how things work. By contrast, Homo sapiens have a strong desire for success. Programmers also want to succeed, but they will frequently accept failure as the price to pay for understanding.

Generally, programmers aren't thrilled about the iterative method because it means extra work for them. Typically, it's managers new to technology who like the iterative process because it relieves them of having to perform rigorous planning, thinking, and product due diligence

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

With the social media phenomenon, where people's opinions inform so much of what we do with our lives, where the number of 'likes' decides what we should program, I cringe.

The tech company needs to win in the war for talent. This means much greater focus on the employee, not simply as cog in the machine, but vital member of a programming team in a race against time and competitors. Wall Street is up-or-out, dog-eat-dog, survival of the fittest.