Quotes About Programming

the creator of Lisp,

Paul Ceruzzi has noted: "Pocket calculators, especially those that were programmable, unleashed the force of personal creativity and energy of masses of individuals.

Early in my career as an engineer, I'd learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.

I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me.

The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code.

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

principios básicos del método Esalen de programación, consistentes en «desmenuzarlo todo y reconstruir de nuevo».

A single line of code in the Xi'an habitat's maintenance programming kept the cathedral from ever suddenly going oxygen-free—but that line of code had been recently expunged in a system update. For three months, then, nothing had kept human inefficiency from suddenly asphyxiating Archbishop Korbijn and hundreds of celebrants during morning services.

Some automatic responses are good — they're skills, and we need them for life and labor. But the tendency to accumulate programming tends to have a life of its own — or more accurately, to steal the life that belongs to us.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

I don't like the feeling, but I've got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer.

You must unlearn what you have been programmed to believe since birth. That software no longer serves you if you want to live in a world where all things are possible.

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

Life would be much easier if I had the source code

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

Copy and paste is a design error.

I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe.

when in Pythonland, do as Pythonistas do, not as C programmers do.

This description requires elaboration when the value and the slice being assigned overlap: L[2:5]=L[3:6], for instance, works fine because the value to be inserted is fetched before the deletion happens on the left.

__next__ raises a built-in StopIteration exception at end-of-file

for calls iter, which calls __iter__

you can do everything in Python that you can in Perl, but