Quotes About Programming

A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things.

For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.

In the 1990s, as it began to feel the impact of cable news and syndicated infotainment programming, network evening newscasts became increasingly focused on tabloid crime and celebrity.

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

C++ protects against accident, not against fraud.

The number of errors in code correlates strongly with the amount of code and the complexity of the code.

Exitem apenas dois tipos de linguagens: Aquelas que as pessoas reclamam de usar, e aquelas que as pessoas não usam.

C++ offers a small zoo of fundamental types, but since I'm not a zoologist, I will not list them all.

The fact that 'goto' can do anything is exactly why we don't use it.

Your programming leads to your thoughts; your thoughts lead to your feelings; your feelings lead to your actions; your actions lead to your results.

PRINCIPIO DE RIQUEZA: Ser consciente es observar tus pensamientos y tus acciones de modo que en el momento actual puedas vivir eligiendo verdaderamente, en lugar de ser dirigido por programaciones del pasado.

Once you are conscious, you can see your programming for what it is: simply a recording of information you received and believed in the past, when you were too young to know any better. You can see that this conditioning is not who you are but who you learned to be. You can see that you are not the "recording" but the "recorder." You are not the "content" in the glass but the "glass" itself. You are not the software but the hardware.

Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.

si tu «patrón financiero» subconsciente no está «programado» para el éxito, nada de lo que aprendas, nada de lo que sepas y nada de lo que hagas hará cambiar mucho las cosas.

But writing and language can do more than just program you. It can manifest reality, as Burroughs explores in his own writing. Burroughs suggests that the act of writing manifests reality because writing manifests the future.

Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach.

I've never worked with the Java community.

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you want to write something where performance is much more important than extensibility, then you might want to choose C rather than Java.

All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists.