Quotes About Programming

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

I think people who write programs do have at least a glimmer of extra insight into the nature of God... because creating a program often means that you have to create a small universe

The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

Programmers have a saying: "garbage in, garbage out.

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

You are being programmed all day, every day. You can't stop it, but you can determine if the programming is positive or negative.

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

To better understand the predicament of someone who is rational but emotionless, consider computers. Give a computer a program to run, and it will use flawless logic to execute it. But unless you give a computer a program to run, it will just sit there. Computers need a motivating force before they will do anything, and it is the job of the programmer to provide this motivating force. Damasio's patient was like an unprogrammed computer. His

If it turns out that all this time we have merely been studying the programming of a cosmic planetarium, then that would merely mean that we have been studying a smaller portion of reality than we thought. So what? Such things have happened many times in the history of science, as our horizons have expanded beyond the Earth to include the solar system, our Galaxy, other galaxies, clusters of galaxies and so on, and, of course, parallel universes.

Put another way allowing their perceptions to be programmed to the extent that leads to the population giving their freedom away by giving their perceptions – their mind – away. If this circuit is not broken by humanity ceasing to cooperate with their own enslavement then nothing can change.

but I'm going to need a team: an artist, a couple programmers, and a manager, because I don't want to sit there interfacing with management all day; I want to program.

The situation is so much better for programmers today -- a cheap used PC, a Linux CD, and an Internet account, and you have all the tools and resources necessary to work your way to any level of programming skills you want to shoot for.

I do not miss ITV, God no! Have you seen ITV lately?

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.

It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.

Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.

The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.