Programming Quotes - Page 25

• I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters, and the fact that Linux has had a huge impact on the tech market and is used virtually everywhere is obviously very personally satisfying. I think programming is fun, and the community around the kernel is great, but a project has to be relevant too.

  Linus Torvalds

  Fun, Thinking, Impact

  "A Conversation With Linus Torvalds, Who Built The World's Most Robust Operating System And Gave It Away For Free". Interview with Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. June 7, 2014.

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• A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.

  Hal Abelson

  Powerful, Mean, Ideas

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• The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Art, Complexity

  "Notes On Structured Programming" by Edsger Dijkstra, April 1970.

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• Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity. These are not things you can overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule.

  Damian Conway

  Art, Fighting, Dark

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• 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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• The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a real programming language, designed for writing and maintaining substantial programs. Because people will want to do that!

  Richard Stallman

  Real, Writing, People

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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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• In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.

  Bill Gates

  Impact, Able, Making Changes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.

  Jeff Atwood

  Computer, Software Engineering, Optimization

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• Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

  Niels Bohr

  Education, Teacher, Learning

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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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• Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Education, Teacher, Learning

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• Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.

  Walter Chrysler

  Funny, Jobs, Hard Work

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• Go isn't functional, it's pragmatical. Why pure paradigms like FP or OOP are always a must? (sigh)

  Frank Muller

  Sigh, Paradigm, Pure

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• Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.

  Rob Pike

  Language, Exciting

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• Go is such a refreshing language to program in, there is very little clutter just the stuff you need to get the job done

  Matthew West

  Jobs, Needs, Done

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• Go is most fun I've had with a compiled PL since I've discovered Turbo Pascal as a kid.

  Bojan Markovic

  Fun, Kids, Pascal

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• A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.

  Joel Spolsky

  Program, User Interface, Wells

  "User Interface Design For Programmers". Book by Joel Spolsky, www.joelonsoftware.com. October 24, 2001.

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• Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

  John Carmack

  Clever, Years, Law

  GameSpy.com Interview with Tom Ham, January 2004.

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• Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. But being a shining jewel of perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Jewels, Goal, Perfection

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• Decisions in 10 minutes or less, or the next one is free.

  Brian Valentine

  Decision, Next, Minutes

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