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Quotes About Programming

I don't think anyone is going to say great things about being a native developer on Android.
~ John Carmack
they began discussing how to standardize chip design. Why couldn't you program a machine to design circuits, they wondered. "Once you can write a program to do something," Mead declared, "you don't need anybody's tool kit, you write your own.
~ Chris Miller
paving the way for computer programs to automate chip design.
~ Chris Miller
When the veterans in the group were growing up, computers were quite rare and expensive, but Veres went to school in the age when anyone with a little money and skill could make up a small personal system. Veres says that what he does at home is different enough from what he does at work to serve as recreation for him. At work he deals with hardware; when he's at home, he focuses on software—reading programming manuals and creating new software for his own computer.
~ Tracy Kidder
She'd tried to program it when they'd gotten into the Toyota, but it had refused to turn on. Once, the GPS had only spoken in a heavy German accent for weeks. Julian had decided it was possessed.
~ Cassandra Clare
Women are programmed to think they're the only screw-up in the universe and men are programmed to think they're the smartest creatures in the universe.
~ Cathy Kelly
Since the subconscious mind can be programmed to stop Special Forces servicemen from bleeding when shot or injured so they can continue their mission, we know the mind is capable of responding. If the mind can respond to outside manipulation, it certainly can respond to our own spirit-driven health choices and directives.
~ Cathy O'Brien
As my "owner," Senator Byrd directed my activities, deciding which military and NASA installations I would be taken to for mind control programming, who I would be prostituted to and when , and which government operations I would ultimately be used in during the Reagan/Bush Administration.
~ Cathy O'Brien
A $100,000,000 venture capital fund was set up solely for products using a specific computer language.
~ Cay S. Horstmann
These actions are often called callbacks because some code gets called back when a user action occurs.
~ Cay S. Horstmann
So why would you believe such thoughts? The only reason you do is that you were programmed to believe what seem to be "your" thoughts. But they are not your thoughts. Believing that they are is the foundational lie that makes the illusory reality possible.
~ Gina Lake
Much of what keeps the ego's lies in place now is the fear of being different from the crowd, of stepping beyond convention and going against how most people think. Once there is less of a stigma around questioning your programming, because more people are not drinking the ego's Kool-Aid, people will awaken to the truth—to reality—much more easily.
~ Gina Lake
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
~ Author Unknown
It's not a bug — it's an undocumented feature.
~ Author Unknown
When I was running a software company, we always knew it would take one great programmer to solve a hard problem in one night versus 10 mediocre programmers taking a month to screw up a problem even worse.
~ James Altucher
Like Ada Lovelace, Turing was a programmer, looking inward to the step-by-step logic of his own mind. He imagined himself as a computer. He distilled mental procedures into their smallest constituent parts, the atoms of information processing.
~ James Gleick
Commercial television has underestimated the intelligence of the public.
~ Jerry Lewis
Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better!
~ Graham Nelson
There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.
~ Steven Levy
I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.
~ Will McDonough
Your limitations are largely programming instilled by others that you choose to believe.
~ Gary Hopkins
When you had just three and then four channels, I could always find something that was watchable because the standard of TV was much higher. In those days, they had so much more money to put into so many less programmes.
~ David Jason
A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.
~ Fred Brooks
The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.
~ The "Xlib Programming Manual"