Quotes About Programming

The Art of Computer Programming

not just asking questions, having discussions, and taking notes, but asking questions and having discussions while you're actually coding.

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers' rigidity.

Computer science really involves the same mindset, particularly artificial intelligence.

I design genetic algorithms, neural network and artificial intelligence systems.

To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.

An IT College Graduate To advance the goals and objectives of the IT department by utilizing strong programming skills and to improve organizational efficiencies and productivity through the use of state-of-the-art technologies A Return-to-Work Candidate To utilize skills and abilities to meet organizational goals in a loyal, dependable, and professional manner A CEO To increase global presence, product mix, and market share to improve and maintain shareholder earnings and value

If I had done what I was programmed to do, I would now be sitting in a car factory looking at the sizes of wheels, or wondering how to get credit to start a new factory in Russia.

One IT executive in an investment banking company claimed that 80 percent of his company's programming code was dedicated to linking disparate systems, as opposed to creating new capabilities.

I always suspected that programmers became programmers because they got to play God with the little universe boxes on their desks.

we programmers spend our lives writing code so that our fellow human beings no longer need to write code

I'm constantly running across comments from developers who don't seem to understand that the code already tells us how it works; we need the comments to tell us why it works. Code comments

Oftentimes, the whole reason we became programmers in the first place is because we wanted to move beyond being a mere player and change the game, control it, modify its parameters, maybe even create our own games.

Brevity of code Featurefulness Speed of execution Time spent coding Robustness Flexibility

AI scientists tried to program computers to act like humans without first answering what intelligence is and what it means to understand. They left out the most important part of building intelligent machines, the intelligence! "Real intelligence" makes the point that before we attempt to build intelligent machines, we have to first understand how the brain thinks, and there is nothing artificial about that. Only then can we ask how we can build intelligent machines

The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.

Debugging: what an odd word. As if bugging were the job of putting in bugs, and debugging the task of removing them. But no. The job of putting in bugs is called programming. A programmer writes some code and inevitably makes the mistakes that result in the malfunctions called bugs. Then, for some period of time, normally longer than the time it takes to design and write the code in the first place, the programmer tries to remove the mistakes.

Code and forget, code and forget: programming as a collective exercise in incremental forgetting.

To program is to translate between the chaos of human life and the line-by-line world of computer language.

I used to have dreams in which I was overhearing conversations I had to program. Once, I had to program two people making love. In my dream they sweated and tumbled while I sat with a cramped hand writing code. The couple went from gentle caresses to ever-widening passions, and I despaired as I tried desperately to find a way to express the act of love in the C computer language.

Meanwhile, the original programmers will have left, and their replacements -- believing they understand the code -- will make some truly spectacular errors, mistakes that will suddenly make everything completely stop working for a while. So that what had seemed to be a descending curve of bugs, a fall toward the ever-receding zero, will reveal itself as the shape of another equation altogether: a line of relentlessly rising, bug-counts climbing in an endless battle against infinity.

I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.

If you believe developers will build applications from scratch using web services as primitive building blocks, then the operating system becomes the Internet.

This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named.