Quotes About Programming

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.

I never really had the fun teens of exploring the world because I was sitting at home, learning programming.

I hope to see more programming, more shows, more actors of mixed ethnicity, more young kids of mixed ethnicity choosing to be in the entertainment industry.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

You have been programmed, brainwashed to see life in very specific forms. Life is endless and we are a body of perception. We are an awareness that is endless. The universe is only perception.

Of course, explaining object-oriented programming as an enhanced switch is much less fancy than presenting it as a technology that helps us model the real world.

So it's reasonable to ask, "Is there actually any reason to use abstract classes?" The short answer is "No." Abstract classes in an API are suspicious and often indicate an unwillingness to invest more time in the proper API design. The longer answer is, "Well, there might be reasons to use abstract classes in APIs after all.

The basic problem lay in the perception that an API is something that people call and an SPI is something that people implement.

This is just another example of API users engaging in "empiric programming." They don't care about what is right or wrong, but only what works and what doesn't. Because this coding style simply used to work, API users exploited it without any problems.

According to Hansen, a real monitor should allow a compiler to verify that the code is correct and thus help to eliminate programming mistakes. However, Java simply uses something that looks like a monitor, but doesn't provide any of a monitor's benefits. The Java compiler knows almost nothing about synchronization.

the key intellectual pursuits that are the primary fit for remote working—writing, programming, designing, advising, and customer support, to mention just a few—have little to do with the cutthroat margin wars of, say, manufacturing.

Despite being programmed for etiquette and protocol, C-3PO had a singularly awful sense of diplomacy.

I don't watch a lot of television.

Society would be a lot better if people watched Hulu's original programming and not just 'Mozart in the Jungle,' which everyone is watching, apparently.

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Second graders learn to read: that's a perfect time to make them code.

Yeah, I love Ethereum. I love coding.

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.