Computer Language Quotes - Page 6

FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.

Ken Thompson

Race, Choices, Three

1983 Turing Award Lecture, "Communications of the ACM" 27 (8), (pp. 761-763), August 1984.

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About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

Edsger Dijkstra

Stupid, Axes, Trying

Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media

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The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.

Amari Cooper

Learning, Giving, Programming

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When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is nothing more precise than code, there is also nothing more permanent or resistant to change. So the situation frequently crops up where nomenclature confusion drives programmers to begin coding prematurely, and that code becomes the de facto design, regardless of its appropriateness or correctness.

Amari Cooper

Learning, Confusion, Design

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People will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

Linus Torvalds

Choices, Would Be, Use

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Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.

Albert Schweitzer

Earning It, Example, Way

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Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed.

Richard E. Pattis

Running, Learning, Important

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Experience comes from bad judgment.

Mark Twain

Learning Something New, Hiking, Climbing

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In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

William James

Education, Teacher, Learning

William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.167, Courier Corporation

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One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

John Dewey

Education, Teacher, Learning

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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham Maslow

Education, Wisdom, Humorous

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Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

Stephen Covey

Learning, Priorities, Time Management

Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, Simon and Schuster

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If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love, Life, Truth

Jiddu Krishnamurti (2005). “Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning”, p.120, New World Library

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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Charles Mingus

Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

John W. Gardner

Education, Teacher, Philosopher

Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.97, Pickle Partners Publishing

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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

Niels Bohr

Education, Teacher, Learning

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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

Emo Philips

Funny, Motivational Sports, Humorous

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What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Richard P. Feynman

Inspiring, Education, Learning

Quoted in James Gleick, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992)

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Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.

Darwin D. Martin

Education, Teacher, Jobs

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Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

Leonardo da Vinci

Work, Distance, Taken

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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Jacob Bronowski

Inspirational, Education, Teacher

"'The Ascent of Man' ('Knowledge or Certainty')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 11, 1973.

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When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.

Larry Wall

Years, California, Principles

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Chance favors the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

Inspirational, Softball, Sports

Lecture, University of Lille, December 7б 1854.

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