Programming Quotes - Page 40

• When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.

  Martin Gore

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.

  Aaron Koblin

  Art, Kids, Hands

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• My programming language was solder.

  Terry Pratchett

  Language, Programming Languages

  On his early computers, from a talk "When I Were A Lad, We Used To Dream of 64K" at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, Scotland, August 2005.

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• Computer scientists have so far worked on developing powerful programming languages that make it possible to solve the technical problems of computation. Little effort has gone toward devising the languages of interaction.

  Donald A. Norman

  Powerful, Effort, Gone

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 6, 1988.

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• Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.

  John Backus

  Writing, Lazy, Computer

  IBM employee magazine "Think", 1979.

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• Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.

  Fred Brooks

  Jobs, Purpose, Language

  YouTube Channel "Computer History Museum"/"The IBM System/360 Revolution", www.youtube.com. March 11, 2008.

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• For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to the "art of computer programming" through his well-known books in a continuous series by this title.

  Donald Knuth

  Art, Book, Design

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• [Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate "culture" with no outlet for unique talents and skills. Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Unique, Practice, Skills

  "The Problem with Programming". Interview with Jason Pontin, www.technologyreview.com. November 28, 2006.

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• Perl programming is an *empirical* science!

  Larry Wall

  Perl

  Usenet article <10226@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, groups.google.com. 1990.

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• With the computer and programming languages, mathematics has newly-acquired tools, and its notation should be reviewed in the light of them. The computer may, in effect, be used as a patient, precise, and knowledgeable "native speaker" of mathematical notation.

  Kenneth E. Iverson

  Light, Tools, May

  "Math for the Layman" by Kenneth E. Iverson, Ch. 10, §D, www.cs.trinity.edu. 1999.

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• Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.

  Doron Zeilberger

  Mathematics, Harder

  "The Narrow-Minded and Ignorant Referee's Report [and Zeilberger's Response] of Zeilberger's Paper 'Automaric CounTilings'". Personal blog at Rutgers School of Arts and Design website, April 15, 2006.

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• When programming was my hobby, I thought that programming would be the perfect job. Now I program for a living and build boats for a hobby. Guess what I think would be the perfect job :)

  Ron Porter

  Jobs, Thinking, Perfect

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• Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

  Alan Perlis

  Cancer, Sugar, Causes

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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• If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

  David Allen

  Education, Perspective, Innovation

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2009

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• It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.

  Alan Cooper

  Jobs, Thinking, Might

  Alan Cooper (1999). “The Inmates are Running the Asylum”, Sams Publishing

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• This week Apple stores are holding free computer programming classes for children. Or as that's called in China, a job fair.

  Conan O'Brien

  Jobs, Children, Class

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• To understand this whole area, you have to stop thinking like a viewer and start thinking like a network programming exec.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Thinking, Television, Areas

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• No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. It's feared that the Internet will do to TV what TV did to the movies in the 1950s. But instead of panicking, the networks are finding ways to co-opt the Web.

  Tom Shales

  Media, Television, Matter

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• The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.

  Frederick Lenz

  Exercise, Science, Meditation

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• Programming will aid a person in developing their mind and will aid their meditation. I find that people who have pursued programming are doing much better in their meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, People, Meditation

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• Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design!

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Jobs, Science

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• One of the things I've been trying to do is look for simpler or rules underpinning good or bad design. I think one of the most valuable rules is avoid duplication. "Once and only once" is the Extreme Programming phrase.

  Martin Fowler

  Thinking, Design, Trying

  "Design Principles and Code Ownership". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. November 11, 2002.

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• Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.

  John Carmack

  Writing, Interesting, Linux

  Firing Squad Interview with Bob Colayco, February 9, 2000.

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• We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.

  Molly Ivins

  Nice, Rap, Home

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• I think the cultural programming on the ABC is one of the glories of the ABC.

  George Brandis

  Thinking, Glory

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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