Quotes About Programming

I just grew up liking computers and stuff like that. Mainly cool stuff, like video games.

There are several places in Vietnam where they're teaching computer science from second grade in class, so they don't have a gender divide because everybody is expected to program.

One of the things that Java is good at is giving you this homogeneous view of a reality that's usually very heterogeneous.

If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.

I'm going to give up TV for Lent except for all the programming I recorded before Lent.

We all program our gadgets, computers, mobiles, but we don't Program our Mind in such a way that we can REJOICE and BE HAPPY.

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

Crockett doubted if we could ever convict Manson, because "he does nothing himself. His people do it all for him. He doesn't do anything anybody could pin on him." He added that "all the women have been programmed to do exactly as he says, and they all have knives. He's got those girls so programmed that they don't even exist. They are a copy of him.

someone has sat down and programmed people to go out, let's say, and commit armed robberies, burglaries, assaults? Do you know of any such instances?" A. "Yes. In one sense, that is what we do when we program soldiers in a war…The Army uses a peer group technique and the patriotic ideals that are instilled in citizens of a particular country to bring about this pattern of behavior.

She learns, after she finishes the job, that she programmed very well the specifications as delivered to her, but that they were deficient. If she had only known the purpose of the program, she could have done it right for the purpose, even though the specifications were deficient.

I could do a much better job (fewer mistakes) if I knew what the program is to be used for. The specifications don't tell me what I need to know (programmer).

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.

The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.

There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.

Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

The computer is a moron.