Quotes About Programming

If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable

I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.

Common Lisp is politics, not art.

Just like a computer, your brain has a search function—but it's even more phenomenal than a computer's. It seems to be programmed by what we focus on and, more primarily, what we identify with.

That callback function is invoked asynchronously when getJSON() returns

JavaScript derives its syntax from Java, its first-class functions from Scheme, and its prototype-based inheritance from Self. But

JavaScript is not a functional programming language like Lisp or Haskell, but the fact that JavaScript can manipulate functions as objects means that we can use functional programming techniques in JavaScript.

Promises, new in ES6, are objects that represent the not-yet-available result of an asynchronous operation.

The keywords async and await were introduced in ES2017 and provide new syntax that simplifies asynchronous programming by allowing you to structure your Promise-based code as if it was synchronous.

You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.

These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.

To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.

We invented a whole new class of computer programming languages known as list processing languages. The basic idea is that whenever a piece of information is stored in memory, additional information should be stored with it telling where to find the next associated piece of information.

Herbert Schildt

C gives the programmer what the programmer wants; few restrictions, few complaints... C++ maintains the original spirit of C, that the programmer not the language is in charge.

I notice small things. I'm a "detail" guy, that's why I'm good at programming.

The programming language of juking is random walks.

Basically, the conscious mind is like the hardware of your computer. The subconscious mind is its operating system. It's composed of code—or all those underlying patterns and connections that were laid down during your childhood. You can't see that code, but it runs the show. It's the engine that determines how you react to the world at large versus how you respond to it.

We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.

At MIT, mostly what I did was documentation. I sort of read things. Wrote some descriptions of various aspects of the file system. Did not really do very much programming at all. At least on Multics.

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

Assembly programmers are the only programmers who can truly claim to be the masters, and that's a truth worth meditating on.