Programming Quotes - Page 24

• Instead of three networks you have three hundred or three thousand. Audiences are inundated with programming, and that sometimes gives them a sense of petulant entitlement.

  George Meyer

  Giving, Three, Sometimes

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• If you've got a stick hitting a drum and you're programming it on a computer, it's so much more interesting than a sample playing back - it's something in the air, that's the magical ingredient.

  Aphex Twin

  Air, Interesting, Hitting

  "A Conversation With Aphex Twin". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com.

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• I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 18 hours programming 16 bars of music.

  Keith Fullerton Whitman

  Guy, Doe, Bars

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was not in a good space in my life, emotionally particularly, so I needed to do something to recharge my batteries emotionally and musically. I took a break and I learnt software and programming a little bit, and that's how I designed my live machine, which I've been using for years.

  Jamie Lidell

  Years, Space, Batteries

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is.

  Jeff Atwood

  Meaningful, Technology, Ideas

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• After you finish the first 90% of a project, you have to finish the other 90%.

  Michael Abrash

  Firsts, Projects

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• Before Ruby on Rails, web programming required a lot of verbiage, steps and time.
  Now, web designers and software engineers can develop a website
  much faster and more simply, enabling them to be more productive
  and effective in their work.

  Bruce Perens

  Steps, Rubies, Enabling

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• I've been in entertainment, politics, business, business coaching, public affairs, documentaries, programming, news, theater. So, there aren't many things I see that I haven't seen something like that before.

  Roger Ailes

  Coaching, News, Documentaries

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• When I do programming in my free time and for my own enjoyment, I really want to have a kind of protection: knowing that when I improve a program those improvements will continue to be available to me and others in future versions of the program.

  Linus Torvalds

  Knowing, Want, Kind

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual.

  Marge Piercy

  Fighting, Media, Soup

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'

  Aphex Twin

  Clever, Emotional, Should Have

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Experience comes from bad judgment.

  Mark Twain

  Learning Something New, Hiking, Climbing

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• Know what you're talking about.

  George H. W. Bush

  Knowing Jesus, Talking, Scary

  George H.W. Bush (2013). “All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm seeing too many kids where they get fixated on their own autism. I'd rather have them get fixated that they like programming computers or they like art or they want to sing in the church choir or they want to train dogs, you know, something that they can turn into a career.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Art, Kids

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• In Europe, radio stations are owned by a variety of different entities, so there is less uniformity on radio programming and more opportunity for artists to get radio play and break overseas.

  Wendy Starland

  Opportunity, Artist, Play

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Learning, Thinking, Progress

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• In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Today, Bugs, Sticks

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

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• FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Years, Mind, Use

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

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• Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Hard Work, Appreciate, Simplicity

  "On the nature of Computing Science" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. August 10, 1984.

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• Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

  Richard Stallman

  Learning, Awards, Giving

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• A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Learning, Libertarian, Obscure

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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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• The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Silly, Effort, Mind

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• It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Giving, Tasks, Needs

  "Answers to questions from students of Software Engineering" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. November 28, 2000.

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• We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people; sometimes they follow it!

  Edsger Dijkstra

  People, Giving, Advice

  "The Humble Programmer". Edsger Dijkstra's ACM Turing Award lecture, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, No. 10, www.cs.utexas.edu. October 1972.

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