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Quotes About Programming

It's new territory, and I'm learning to live in it. To do that, I need to overcome thousands of years of programming that adversity is a constant requirement of existence. We need to savor our success, first for seconds at a time, then for minutes that grow into months.
~ Gay Hendricks
Unfortunately, our thermostat setting usually gets programmed in early childhood, before we can think for ourselves. Once programmed, our Upper Limit thermostat setting holds us back from enjoying all the love, financial abundance, and creativity that's rightfully ours. It keeps us in our Zone of Competence or at best our Zone of Excellence. It prevents us from living in the ultimate destination of the journey—our Zone of Genius.
~ Gay Hendricks
Every person's mental programming is partly unique, partly shared with others.
~ Geert Hofstede
If you want to get a job as a programmer at a company that makes an open-source product, then contribute pull requests. If you want to get a job in developer relations, don't just contribute pull requests: go out and talk about the product. - Ted Neward
~ Geertjan Wielenga
If I had known that I could be a programmer and a teacher at the same time, I think I would have aimed for this career much sooner because this is my sweet spot: being able to do something that's creative and logical like programming, but also focusing on the documentation, the teaching, and the speaking - Trisha Gee
~ Geertjan Wielenga
Ask a programmer to review ten lines of code, he'll find ten issues. Ask him to do five hundred lines, and he'll say it looks good.
~ Gene Kim
what's the plural of 'developer'?" says Maxine. "A 'merge conflict.
~ Gene Kim
Bash is the disease you die with, but don't die of.
~ Gene Kim
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
~ Isaac Asimov
Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics," and here they are: 1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
~ Isaac Asimov
Bir robot, bir insana zarar veremez. Ya da hareketsiz kalarak bir insan?n zarar görmesine neden olamaz. 2. Bir robot, insanlar?n verdikleri emirlere uymak zorundad?r. Ancak bu tür emirler Birinci Yasayla çeliÅŸtiÄŸi zaman durum deÄŸiÅŸir. 3. Bir robot, Birinci ve İkinci Yasalarla çeliÅŸmediÄŸi sürece varl???n? korumak zorundad?r. Robotik El Kitab? 56. Bask?. M.S. 2158
~ Isaac Asimov
the telemetrists began to use a computer to program the computer that designed the program for the computer that programmed the robot-controlling computer. There was nothing but confusion.
~ Isaac Asimov
The Three Laws Of Robotics: - First Law – A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. - Second Law – A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. - Third Law – A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. Handbook of Robotics, 56th Edition, 2058 A.D.
~ Isaac Asimov
The Three Laws of Robotics 1 – A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2 – A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3 – A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. Handbook of Robotics, 56th Edition, 2058 A.D.
~ Isaac Asimov
Are you well, sir?" asked Giskard. It was a foolish question, dictated by the programming of the robot, thought Baley, though, at that, it was no worse than the questions asked by human beings, sometimes with wild inappropriateness, out of the programming of etiquette.
~ Isaac Asimov
no human mind has created those equations directly. We have merely spent decades programming more powerful computers and they have devised and stored the equations, but, of course, we don't know if they are valid and have meaning. It depends entirely on how valid and meaningful the programming is in the first place.
~ Isaac Asimov
Un robot no puede lastimar a la humanidad o, por falta de acción, permitir que la humanidad sufra daños. La considero ahora la ley Cero de la Robótica. La primera ley debería decir: Un robot no debe dañar a un ser humano, o permitir, por inacción, que el ser humano sufra algún daño, a menos que tal acción viole la ley Cero de la Robótica.
~ Isaac Asimov
Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.
~ John Carmack
Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.
~ Marissa Mayer
'Zoo' further demonstrates our commitment to high-quality, year-round programming and to high-concept series that play to summer audiences in the U.S. as well as on a global scale.
~ Nina Tassler
Tune in to Kids and Family Week is perfect for me.
~ Melissa Joan Hart
TV is tricky. You can do some stuff and people will tune out and never tune back in. It's sort of like putting a bad taste in somebody's mouth. Some people may not ever tune in again. And then there's some people that will tune in just to tune in and see what's gon' happen.
~ NeNe Leakes
What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
~ Larry Ellison
Ethereum has taken what was a four-function calculator of a programming language in Bitcoin and turned it into a full-fledged computer.
~ Fred Ehrsam