Quotes About Coding

There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.

Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

With Scratch, we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

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.

Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven

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

I never was much of a game player, but I loved to be on the computer.

Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing Buddhist exercises all day long.

Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced meditation in past lives, that is the way your mind works.

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

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.

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

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

After being sensed, the information, via innate electrical coding, is passed along from cell to cell, then through nervous system channels where it ends up in this or that control center which then makes "sense" of the electrical coding, and which is not always the brain. It thus turns out that the entire human body is one gigantic series of sensing systems, having, as it does, millions upon millions of sensing receptors.

When expressing a regular character literal, you simply use single quotes: 'This is a regular character string literal'. When expressing a Unicode character literal, you need to specify the character N (for National) as a prefix: N'This is a Unicode character string literal'.

requisite variety — the ability to survive under varied conditions. Often this means "fixing" input behind the scenes in code so that all the varied inputs conform to the format that the code/database needs

Of course, the test difficulty depends on what you're doing, and on how you're doing it. I'm constantly asking "How much would I have to screw this up to write an incorrect function that passes these simple tests?" Occasionally the answer is "Not much," so I'll throw the code away and start over. It was probably perfect code, but that's not good enough.

From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.

And to close on, the Dept of Small Consolations. Some troubledome just figured out that if you allow for every codder and shiggy and appleofmyeye a space one foot by two you could stand us all on the six hundred forty square mile surface of the island of Zanzibar. ToDAY third MAY twenty-TEN come aGAIN!

Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.

Yaz?l?m konusunda iddial? insanlar kendi donan?mlar?n? yapmal?lar.

The word 'hackathon' was born out of 'marathon' for a reason. It's exhausting.