Quotes About Programming

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.

If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.

Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa.

Besides, REAL computers have a rename system call.

I describe myself as an indoor cat, because I'm a computer guy and I always have been.

If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.

You can create art and beauty with a computer.

I first learnt to program a computer when I was nine, when my dad got a ZX80, but I think I would have had to be a particularly perspicacious child to have foreseen the iPad or Twitter!

C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.

So, when Cole was two and I was four, we moved to Goshen Falls. Lucky us! The whole town is three blocks long. We have a cute little farm with a cute little farmhouse. And even though Mom and Dad are computer programmers — not farmers — we have a backyard full of chickens.

television in the summer was just plain bad.