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Quotes About Programming

It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET.
~ Miguel de Icaza
We are actually programmed to get satisfaction and pleasure from discovery and creativity, he says, because its results lead to our survival as a species. New
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
So far, the results confirm the folklore: Programmers seem to be a bit more productive after they've done the estimate themselves, compared to cases in which the manager did it without even consulting them. When the two did the estimating together, the results tended to fall in between.
~ Tom DeMarco
There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.
~ Shannon Miller
You can write anything that you would be able to write on a server and put it onto the blockchain. Instead of Javascript making calls to the server, you would be making calls to the blockchain.
~ Vitalik Buterin
To this day, I run into people all the time that say, whether it was 'Doom', or maybe even more so 'Quake' later on, that that openness and that ability to get into the guts of things was what got them into the industry or into technology.
~ John Carmack
When a computer creates art, who is the artist—the computer or the programmer? At MIT, a recent exhibit of highly accomplished algorithmic art had put an awkward spin on the Harvard humanities course: Is Art What Makes Us Human?
~ Dan Brown
When a computer creates art, who is the artist—the computer or the programmer?
~ Dan Brown
Humor cannot be programmed…it must be learned.
~ Dan Brown
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.
~ Alan Perlis
Summer is a great opportunity for all of cable. People love to find original episodes.
~ Bonnie Hammer
Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.
~ T. Harv Eker
Algorithms are called the aunties. They're self-organising and so nobody fully understands them.
~ William Gibson
Much of television programming--mind-numbing talk shows, soap operas, and reality TV--should come with a disclaimer: 'Warning: Watching the following program is likely to stunt one's emotional, intellectual, and spiritual growth.
~ Chris Seay
pointer is simply a variable that stores the address of something else in the same way as a reference. The
~ Christian Nagel
We become programmed with a set of upper limits for what we believe we deserve in life. That includes how healthy, how prosperous, and how well loved we can expect to be. These beliefs operate in our subconscious, under the radar of our everyday consciousness. But they unerringly attract to us experiences that reinforce what we already believe.
~ Christiane Northrup
My idea of the show is that it's a war time broadcast. We are at war against stations who applaud timid, unadventurous programming. We are at war against mediocre and uninspired music. Our enemies are many. All the "presenters" on the radio who dial in their shows with not an ounce of Fanatic zeal or love of music and the ever more corporate lean of so many stations are but a few examples.
~ Henry Rollins
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.
~ Henry Spencer
Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it -- badly.
~ Henry Spencer
thinking of API design as resource design is a very effective way to avoid thinking about hypermedia.
~ Leonard Richardson
Blue screen of death: she'd crashed his system. Oh, well. Boys were so unstable that way, full of buggy, self-contradictory code, pathetically unoptimized.
~ Lev Grossman
The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.
~ Dennis Ritchie
The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
~ Linus Torvalds
Zero-length arrays are useful only in cases where you have a large structure, which contains a field of dynamic length, and you need to share that structure across program or even computer boundaries.
~ Robert Love