Programming Quotes - Page 35

• I think that the marketplace has changed in many dramatic ways but actually in some sense it's remained the same because the challenge of creating quality programming is the same, and I've always thought that if you follow the great material everything else will fall in to place.

  Colin Callender

  Fall, Thinking, Creating

  Source: deadline.com

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• Every time someone does a Western movie, people flock to it. It's like, we're continually programming to people who are least likely to watch us. People in Nebraska aren't watching things on the computer, they're watching television. Why aren't we programming things for them? We only program things that appeal to New York and Los Angeles and in many ways spit on the rest of the country.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Country, New York, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.

  Billy Graham

  Evil, Choices, Robots

  Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.298, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.'

  Johnny Carson

  Hypocrite, Islands, People

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• And ultimately, it's good for all of us to have more original programming on the air. Business doesn't drive the creative. So, in identifying a project like Dovekeepers, looking at something like Extant and looking at Under the Dome, it was about falling in love with a piece of material, getting excited by the creative direction, hearing a vision, and getting excited about the potential for those projects and building the business model around it. And they're not all modeled the same way. Every one is different.

  Nina Tassler

  Falling In Love, Air, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

  Richard Stallman

  Crafts

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• I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy.

  Eric Allman

  Believe, Joy, Plot

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• GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.

  Raymond Simard

  Complaining, Tools, Computer

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• Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.

  Karl Lehenbauer

  Trying, Computer, Sometimes

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• Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

  Richard Hamming

  Toes, Computer, Scientist

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• Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Writing, Mean, Kids

  "Negroponte: Laptop for Every Kid". Interview with Kevin Poulsen, www.wired.com. November 17, 2005.

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• The television industry claims they are only reflecting society with their programming and have no influence on behavior. If that is the case then why do businesses spend millions on TV ads that have no influence?

  Randall Wright

  Television, Tvs, Influence

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• Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

  Donald Knuth

  Art, Want, Computer

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• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Believe, Generations, Looks

  "Malcolm McLaren on bringing bollocks back to the BBC" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.

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• In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

  Iain Banks

  Jobs, Teaching, Mean

  Interview With Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2008.

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• I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe.

  Mario Batali

  Party, Believe, Ties

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• My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.

  Bram Cohen

  Father, School, Class

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• I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.

  Jack Dorsey

  Taken, Technology, Impact

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• My first app was released in July or August of 2008. It was a 'fingermill' - a treadmill for your fingers. My level of programming was quite basic to begin with, so it was more gimmicky to start with. Day one it was up there, I had 79 pounds worth of revenue.

  Nick D'Aloisio

  July, August, Levels

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• I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works... Character driven programming!

  Tim DeKay

  Character, Thinking, Usa

  "EXCLUSIVE: Tim DeKay Talks White Collar Season 3 and Episode 3.12". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. January 23, 2012.

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• On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees.

  Marc Andreessen

  Tools, Needs, Internet

  "Why Software Is Eating The World" by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

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• Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.

  Larry Wall

  Creativity, Thinking, Trying

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• Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.

  Clay Shirky

  Trying, Way, Fuzzy

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• We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and helped burn the corpses. We don't know what causes it; we don't really know if there is only one disease. We just suffer - and keep pouring our sewage into our water supply.

  Tom Van Vleck

  Agony, Water, Suffering

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• The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Design, Heavyweights, Fleeing

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.182, Addison-Wesley Professional

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