Programmers Quotes - Page 14

• Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs, is also complicated, the language itself becomes part of the problem rather than part of its solution.

  Tony Hoare

  Design, Tools, Language

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• In a weird way, riffing on genres is kind of a reaction to formula. When you watch so much of the programmers and the films that you just think you've seen before, it's kind of going back to the well in terms of trying to conjure up the spirit of what made you excited about films in the first place.

  Edgar Wright

  Thinking, Genre Is, Trying

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Technology, Arrogant, Benefits

  Bjarne Stroustrup (2000). “The C++ Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• And no, I'm not a walking C++ dictionary. I do not keep every technical detail in my head at all times. If I did that, I would be a much poorer programmer. I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Details, Would Be, Needs

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