Programming Quotes - Page 29

• Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

  Douglas Crockford

  Data, Crafts, Requirements

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• JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.

  Douglas Crockford

  Misunderstood, World, Javascript

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• You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming.

  Marshall Sylver

  Believe, Self, Currents

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• Self-programming, what you believe and affirm about yourself, is the basis of who you are.

  Marshall Sylver

  Believe, Self, Bases

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• In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you.

  Boris Beizer

  Specifications

  Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

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• The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs.

  Harlan Mills

  Errors, Sitting, Way

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• There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming.

  Rasmus Lerdorf

  People

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• I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.

  Rasmus Lerdorf

  Hate, Problem, Problem Solving

  "Interview – PHP’s Creator, Rasmus Lerdorf". Interview with Kevin Yank, www.sitepoint.com. May 22, 2002.

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• The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

  Carl Sagan

  Ignorance, Media, Sound

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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• Embryos turn into babies; buds turn into blossoms; acorns turn into oak trees. The same programming that exists in them exists in each of us - to manifest our highest potential. What is the difference between those things and us? That we can say no...So today, say yes.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Baby, Differences

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 12, 2013

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• Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious... Patients are people who have had too much programming - so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Self, People, Too Much

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• In recent years we've seen an explosion of creative programming, and I think it represents a third golden age of television because the creators have more control over the story. The audience doesn't care about the platform. They care about the content.

  Kevin Spacey

  Wisdom, Thinking, Years

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• Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.

  Muhammad Waseem

  Men, Giving, Computer

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• The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.

  Timothy Leary

  Responsibility, Brain, Machines

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• I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end".

  Douglas Adams

  Apples, Might, Computer

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• Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

  Donald Knuth

  Everyday, Life Is Like, Ifs

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• I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Responsibility, People, Action

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• The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Lying, Years, Giving

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 01, 2013

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• Code never lies, comments sometimes do.

  Ron Jeffries

  Lying, Sometimes, Never Lie

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• Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.

  T. Harv Eker

  Running, Past, Choices

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Oct 19, 2012

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• My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impendence mismatch we have between programming languages, C# in particular, and the database world, like SQL or, for that matter, the XML world, like XQuery and those languages that exist.

  Anders Hejlsberg

  Couple, Thinking, Past

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• Your mind is programmable – if you’re not programming your mind, someone else will program it for you.

  Jeremy Hammond

  Self, Mind, Influence

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• Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.

  Linus Torvalds

  Funny, Science, Shooting

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• If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

  Robert W. Floyd

  Design, Support, Matching

  "The Paradigms of Programming", 1978 Turing Award Lecture, Communications of the ACM 22 (8), August 1979: pp. 455 - 460,

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