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Quotes About Programming

Your head or intellect is addicted to the satisfaction of your physical senses—the place that holds all of the programming and conditioning of your childhood and adult experiences and is the throne of the negative ego.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
When you think that someone else thinks you are wrong or guilty because of the color of your skin, your responses to or interactions with them are not grounded in reality. They are the result of programming and conditioning.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
I'm programming us a couple of spinach smoothies I'll pass. For the rest of my natural life. Just what you need, he insisted, tapped buttons manually. And came out with two cups of coffee.
~ J.D. Robb
New elements, she thought, pleased with the challenge. Roarke had been fiddling, adding some elements and upgrades. When she engaged in hand-to-hand with the second thief, she knew he'd fiddled with the programming with her in mind.
~ J.D. Robb
Television programming is the number one topic on Twitter, and dozens of start-ups in the social space are linking second-screen experiences. People no longer need to sit on the same couch to enjoy a show together.
~ Jay Samit
There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.
~ Tony Hoare
Computer programming has been traditionally seen as something that is beyond most people - it's only for a special group with technical expertise and experience. We have developed 'Scratch' as a new type of programming language, which is much more accessible.
~ Mitchel Resnick
Whether you draw diagrams that generate code or you type at a browser, you are coding.
~ Kent Beck
Sports is the ultimate escape, the ultimate in reality programming. It's true drama. You really don't know what's going to happen.
~ Rich Eisen
Microsoft first entered the living room with Ultimate TV way back in 2000 - a year before Apple's first iPod was announced. Ultimate TV offered consumers a DVR and supporting online services, including 14 days of programming and the ability to record 35 hours of programming. Microsoft's reach was then thwarted when Echostar acquired DIRECTV.
~ Jay Samit
Our ultimate goal is extensible programming (EP). By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.
~ Niklaus Wirth
Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.
~ Alec Berg
I designed and developed an unbelievable number of applications early in my life.
~ Neal Patterson
I took a Logo programming class in fifth grade. Logo is a language specifically designed for the classroom environment. It was basically doodling through words.
~ Gene Luen Yang
The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.
~ Lee Child
I personally think there's going to be a greater demand in 10 years for liberal arts majors than there were for programming majors and maybe even engineering, because when the data is all being spit out for you, options are being spit out for you, you need a different perspective in order to have a different view of the data.
~ Mark Cuban
Entire sections of them simply cannot be translated - the characters are legible and well-known, but when put together they do not say anything that leaves an imprint on the modern mind. Like instructions for programming a VCR.
~ Neal Stephenson
GUIs tend to impose a large overhead on every single piece of software, even the smallest, and this overhead completely changes the programming environment. Small utility programs are no longer worth writing. Their functions, instead, tend to get swallowed up into omnibus software packages.
~ Neal Stephenson
Well, that's good. I don't think human-written code exists anymore. It's code written by code written by code—turtles all the way down.
~ Neal Stephenson
I'll set up a cron job to do it right now," Corvallis said. "Once an hour?" "I was thinking once a minute.
~ Neal Stephenson
Nothing is more disagreeable to the hacker than duplication of effort. The first and most important mental habit that people develop when they learn how to write computer programs is to generalize, generalize, generalize. To make their code as modular and flexible as possible, breaking large problems down into small subroutines that can be used over and over again in different contexts.
~ Neal Stephenson
It is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.
~ Neal Stephenson
It's tragic. The wounds that humans get are so strong that they're like robots operating on childhood programming. And even if they learn the truth about themselves in therapy and rehab, they still cling to their false beliefs and make choices that don't serve them—over and over again." He shakes his head at the cosmic absurdity of it all. "It takes hard, conscious, diligent work to genuinely change.
~ Neil Strauss
National Geographic has awesome stuff. I like Court TV. Sometimes I'll watch Reality Mix because they have some interesting stuff on that.
~ Erik Estrada