Quotes About Programming

Channel 4 always do really great stuff; they do great comedies.

VH1 is seriously competing for best channel ever.

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

Computer science education is important.

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

I build computers.

There are not going to be hundreds of cable networks doing original programming; they won't be able to sustain the model.

MTV refers to its audience as 'the demo.' Being 'in the demo' means being in the demographic sweet spot that advertisers want their programming to hit, which is ideally between 18 and 24.

I must admit I don't watch a lot of Adult Swim or Cartoon Network.

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages.

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

I did not look for "what went wrong" or the "whys." I did not look for cures. I looked at what worked, no matter how. If a few good therapists "fixed" anybody, I looked at what they actually did. When people got over problems on their own, I looked at what had happened. The result is what is now called Neuro-Linguistic Programming—that is, a series of lessons that teach what others have learned that works.

A simple, five-command loop expands into a beautiful segmented structure of fifty lines. Little portions of program detach into reusable parts. Neelay's father hooks up a cassette tape player, for easy reloading of their hours of work in mere minutes. But the volume button must be set just right, or everything explodes with a read error.

Hermes rolled his eyes. Surely you've seen network TV lately. It's clear they don't know whether they're coming or going. That's because Janus is in charge of programming. He loves ordering new shows and cancelling them after two episodes. God of beginnings and endings, after all. Anyway, I was bringing him some magic doormats, and I was double-parked- You have to worry about double-parking? Will you let me tell the story? Sorry.

En la intimidad los rusos comentaban que la única página creíble del periódico era la de la programación televisiva y radiofónica. —No

[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accomodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.

Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.

the move toward object-oriented programming, where applications could be fashioned out of small, predefined blocks of code, was a lot like building with LEGO.