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Quotes About Programming

It's amazing that Sky is the only place that has two dedicated arts channels. The BBC is doing very well... but why don't they do more?
~ Melvyn Bragg
Just as someone who's been interested in radio and programming for so long, I can usually tell when an interviewer is doing a segment just to fill a programming slot. They ask questions, but they don't care about the answers.
~ Chris Hardwick
How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone and how do you program a brain, so to speak, and how does that affect an individual?
~ Jose Padilha
The real bottleneck is software. Creating software can be done only the old-fashioned way. A human -sitting quietly in a chair with a pencil, paper and laptop- is going to have to write the codes... One can mass-produce hardware and increase it's power by piling on more and more chips, but you cannot mass-produce the brain.
~ Michio Kaku
Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. What they say, what they do, and the opinions they give are according to the agreements they have in their own minds. Their point of view comes from all the programming they received during domestication.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Even moral laws like the Ten Commandments are programmed into our mind in the process of domestication
~ Miguel Ruiz
They had no control over the programming they received, so they couldn't have behaved any differently.
~ Miguel Ruiz
It's just programming" "No. It's because I love him
~ Scott Westerfeld
I love learning languages, and actually computer code is another language as well.
~ Tang Wei
Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.
~ Zach Braff
Our mandate at Nerdist is that we only get involved with nice people around things that we love. We have the luxury of being in the demographic that we're programming for.
~ Chris Hardwick
It is far easier to design a class to be thread-safe than to retrofit it for thread safety later.
~ Brian Goetz
Just as it is a good practice to make all fields private unless they need greater visibility, it is a good practice to make all fields final unless they need to be mutable.
~ Brian Goetz
The possibility of incorrect results in the presence of unlucky timing is so important in concurrent programming that it has a name: a race condition. A race condition occurs when the correctness of a computation depends on the relative timing or interleaving of multiple threads by the runtime; in other words, when getting the right answer relies on lucky timing.
~ Brian Goetz
The java.util.concurrent.atomic package contains atomic variable classes for effecting atomic state transitions on numbers and object references. By replacing the long counter with an AtomicLong, we ensure that all actions that access the counter state are atomic.
~ Brian Goetz
always use the proper synchronization whenever data is shared across threads. 3.1.1.
~ Brian Goetz
Machines are fully functional from the day of their programming." Erasmus sounded smug. "That explains a lot. For us, life is a gradual developmental process. Without nurturing, we can't survive," she said. "You have never been nurtured. I think you should make improvements to the way you raise the slave children in your pens. Show them more kindness, encourage their curiosity.
~ Brian Herbert
The boy I used to know as Thomas Merker has been erased--replaced with a personality programmed by television and commercials to act a certain way.
~ Brian James
Every kid gets programmed by their 'rents, Chase. That doesn't mean they have to do as they're told.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
Cuando se desarrolla un comportamiento preprogramado, la vigilante mente consciente puede intervenir, detener dicho comportamiento y crear una nueva respuesta.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
~ Carl Sagan
Seni ne için affedeceÄŸim? Bana masumiyetin gerçek anlam?n? gösterdiÄŸin için mi? İnanmaya programland???m her kibirli nosyonu sorgulamama sebep olduÄŸun için mi? Salak olduÄŸumu fark etmemi saÄŸlad???n için mi? Sana a??k olmama sebep olduÄŸun için mi?
~ Tess Gerritsen
If one character, one pause, of the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work. Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjustment to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program." The
~ G. Pascal Zachary
NT is alarmingly complex. Consisting of six million lines of code, the program is among humanity's most intricate handiworks. "No one mind can comprehend it all," Cutler says. A
~ G. Pascal Zachary