Quotes About Programming

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.

Software is the language of automation.

The single most important thing for any processor is getting adoption by software developers.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.

I know one business, and that's how to make software.

Software and digital devices are imbued with the values of their creators.

I'm kind of a retired software engineer. I don't write code anymore.

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'

I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

I love the 'Housewives.' I don't watch 'American Idol' or 'X Factor.' I guess I don't like network reality: I like my Bravo; I like documentary programming - I love 'Intervention' and some things on TLC more than others - but the 'Real Housewives' to me are really revolutionary, in terms of giving camera time to women of a certain age.

We do not give programs in any specific programming language; instead, algorithms are presented in pseudocode, a structured format using a combination of natural language, mathematics and programming structures. Algorithm 1.1 is a simple algorithm for integer multiplication using repeated addition.

Programming is full of odd ideas. Using shorter, less descriptive names often produces code that's more readable overall. The most powerful languages usually have far fewer concepts than the lesser ones. And failing and copying may be the best way to produce successful, original work. - Patrick Collison is a student at MIT.

You might be "just a programmer," but being able to speak to your business clients in the language of their business domain is a critical skill.

On Sirius, I can find anything I want. They have about four or five different metal channels, rock channels; there's a whole Elvis channel.

Government departments are arranged hierarchically; those at the top are used to issuing orders and expect them to be carried out by their subordinates right down the line. Minow assumed that a cultural institution like television has a similar hierarchical structure, as if television executives could requisition more creative programming the way a bureaucrat orders new pencils or department stationery.

If a child grows to adulthood without examining the view of life, self, and the world he or she grew up with, it's likely that quite a bit of this early "programming" will still affect the adult's opinion of self and the way in which he or she sees and interacts with the world. This can sometimes place limitations on how well the person copes with life and what they can accomplish.

Someone who combines HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills might be called a "front-end developer.

a name, like javax.swing (a package that holds some of the Swing GUI classes you'll learn about soon). ArrayList is in the package called java.util, which surprise surprise, holds a pile of utility classes. You'll learn a lot more about packages in Chapter 17, including how to put your own classes into your own packages. For now though, we're just looking to use

useful thing about a File object is that it offers a much safer way to represent a file than just using a String file name.