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Quotes About Programming

I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels.
~ Mithun Chakraborty
You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.
~ Bill Budge
More people are asking me to come and sing for them, so obviously I am getting more work. But apart from singing, I have been parallely programming and producing music tracks and assisting music directors. That is my bread and butter, which is how I survived in Mumbai. Now I can't leave it.
~ Arijit Singh
You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
~ Ken Thompson
You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.
~ Tony Hoare
Transparency once meant being able to "open the hood" to see how things worked. Now, with the Macintosh meaning of transparency dominant in the computer culture, it means quite the opposite: being able to use a program without knowing how it works.
~ Sherry Turkle
Robots don't smile because they want to. They're programmed to do so-like humans recently.
~ Shirow Masamune
Do your kind even know what love is? Can you feel anything at all, or is it just... programmed?
~ Marissa Meyer
I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.
~ Rasmus Lerdorf
This is a patriarchal truism that most people in our society want to deny. Whenever women thinkers, especially advocates of feminism, speak about the widespread problem of male violence, folks are eager to stand up and make the point that most men are not violent. They refuse to acknowledge that masses of boys and men have been programmed from birth on to believe that at some point they must be violent, whether psychologically or physically, to prove that they are men.
~ bell hooks
Whenever women thinkers, especially advocates of feminism, speak about the widespread problem of male violence, folks are eager to stand up and make the point that most men are not violent. They refuse to acknowledge that masses of boys and men have been programmed from birth on to believe that at some point they must be violent, whether psychologically or physically, to prove that they are men.
~ bell hooks
Q: Why bother doing proofs about programming languages? They are almost always boring if the definitions are right. A: The definitions are almost always wrong. - Anonymous
~ Benjamin C. Pierce
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
~ Alan Perlis
I didn't set out to be at the top of technology companies. I'm just geeky and shy, and I like to code.
~ Marissa Mayer
Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming.
~ Gordon Smith
Our society expects that everyone should learn to write, even though very few become professional writers. Similarly, I think that everyone should learn how to program, even though very few will become professional programmers.
~ Mitchel Resnick
Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.
~ Seth Lloyd
This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
~ Bjarne Stroustrup
The computer industry began with home-brew boxes that everyone had to program for themselves, but that was a huge hassle. The computer revolution didn't explode until the first Macintosh arrived, with its point-and-click simplicity.
~ Clive Thompson
In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture. We overthrow the programming of advertising, movies, video games, magazines, TV, and MTV by which we have been hypnotized from the cradle. We unplug ourselves from the grid by recognizing that we will never cure our restlessness by contributing our disposable income to the bottom line of Bullshit, Inc., but only by doing our work.
~ Steven Pressfield
Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe enforced obedience, by wielding the threat of expulsion. Fear of rejection isn't just psychological; it's biological. It's in our cells.
~ Steven Pressfield
I suffer from a chronic nausea—after I'm with people. The awareness (after-awareness) of how programmed I am, how insincere, how frightened.
~ Susan Sontag
A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.
~ Joseph Weizenbaum
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.
~ Joseph Weizenbaum