Programming Quotes - Page 30

• Linear programming can be viewed as part of a great revolutionary development which has given mankind the ability to state general goals and to lay out a path of detailed decisions to take in order to "best" achieve its goals when faced with practical situations of great complexity.

  George Dantzig

  Discovery, Order, Goal

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• Look, I think liberals have reasonable gripes with Fox News. It does lean to the right, primarily in its opinion programming but also in its story selection (which is fine by me) and elsewhere. But it's worth remembering that Fox is less a bastion of ideological conservatism and more a populist, tabloidy network.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Thinking, Doe, Looks

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• The average person is unaware that he or she is living out a negative destiny according to his or her past (childhood) programming, preserving his or her familiar identity, and, in the process, pushing love away. On an unconscious level, many people sense that if they did not push love away, the whole world, as they have experienced it, would be shattered and they would not know who they were.

  Robert W. Firestone

  Past, Destiny, Average

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• The students in your youth ministry don’t need your clever ideas and great programming skills. They need a living model—a man or woman of God who is passionate about his or her faith.

  Doug Fields

  Clever, Men, Skills

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• Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.

  Marissa Mayer

  Giving Up, Responsibility, Comfort

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• The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Useless, Way, Follow Through

  "Jamie Lee Curtis Comes Clean". Interview with Andrew Eccles, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 3, 2010.

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• I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Horse, War, Italian

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• I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.

  Will McDonough

  Educational, Thinking, Television

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• 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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• All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code.

  Dave Thomas

  Writing, Maintenance, Software

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• In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

  Ken Thompson

  Exercise, College, Games

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• You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

  Ken Thompson

  Trust, Code, Self Trust

  "Reflections on Trusting Trust". Communications of the ACM 27 (8), (pp. 761-763), August 1984.

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• The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

  Ken Thompson

  Program, Server

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• Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.

  Chris Hardwick

  Television, Made, Superiors

  "Chris Hardwick to Host Streamy Awards". www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2013.

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• Our mandate at Nerdist is that we only get involved with nice people around things that we love. We have the luxury of being in the demographic that we're programming for.

  Chris Hardwick

  Nice, Luxury, People

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• Courses can, and should, incorporate the excitement and fun of programming games, apps or even real digital devices.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Fun, Real, Games

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• Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Fun, Discipline, Covering

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• The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the commercials are there to help sell things. And that TV shows are there to sell commercials, and so on.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Simple, Tv Shows, Understanding

  "Program or be Programmed: The GeekDad". Interview with Jason Cranfordteague, www.wired.com. July 29, 2011.

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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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• That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

  George Boole

  Learning, Expression, Language

  George Boole (1854). “An Investigation of the Laws of Thought: On which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities”, p.24

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• Go is no Erlang, Smalltalk or Scheme, nothing pure. But it works great and is fun!

  Frank Muller

  Fun, Schemes, Pure

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• If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles – but you’d be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature that.

  Marcus J. Ranum

  Car, Able, Wheels

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• Good information architecture enables people to find and do what they came for. Great information architecture takes find out of the equation: the site behaves as the visitor expects. Poor or missing information architecture neuters content, design, and programming and devalues the site for its owners as well as the audience it was created to serve. It’s like a film with no director. The actors may be good, the sets may be lovely, but audiences will leave soon after the opening credits.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  People, Design, Missing

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• The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and you have all the tools necessary to work your way to any level of programming skill you want to shoot for.

  John Carmack

  Cds, Skills, Tools

  "Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture". Book by David Kushner, May 6, 2003.

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• You are not in the world...the world is in you," what did he mean? [That is, you are not in the world," that is, there is no "you" that is real or in any world. "The world is in you" means that the world is in your "mind" and is nothing more than a figment of your programming-and-conditioning-induced imaginings.]

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Real, Mean, Mind

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