Programming Quotes - Page 9

• I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

  Linus Torvalds

  Trust, Data, Differences

  Message to Git mailing list, lwn.net. June 27, 2006.

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• C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Quirky, Computer, Enormous

  "Inventing Unix". Interview with Samuel K. Moore, Steven Cherry, spectrum.ieee.org. May 27, 2011.

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• Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven

  Charles Petzold

  Kitchen, Computer, Ovens

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• Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.

  Sam Ewing

  Technology, People, Bikinis

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• Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

  Fred Brooks

  Computer, Projects, Late

  "The Mythical Man-Month," Datamation, Dec. 1974

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• In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

  Yogi Berra

  Leadership, Funny Inspirational, Reality

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person who is doing it!

  Amar Bose

  Thinking, Impossible, Persons

  "Spotlight: Amar Bose, the guru of sound design" by Roxana Popescu, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2007.

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• Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.

  Tony Hoare

  Improvement, Language, Successors

  "Hints on Programming Language Design", December 1973.

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• You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

  Bill Joy

  Sugar, Program, Prove

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• Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Thinking, Debugging

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• I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies!

  Kent Beck

  Mean, Quaint, Source

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• Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs.

  Rosamund Pike

  Learning, Fancy, Bugs

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• What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related? What is the linking thread which gathers these disparate branches into a single discipline. My answer to these questions is simple -it is the art of programming a computer. It is the art of designing efficient and elegant methods of getting a computer to solve problems, theoretical or practical, small or large, simple or complex. It is the art of translating this design into an effective and accurate computer program.

  Tony Hoare

  Art, Learning, Simple

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• Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Shoulders, Mathematician

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• Culture is your operating system.

  Terence McKenna

  Culture, Operating Systems

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• I tell people to start implementing when they are pretty sure there aren't more important stories out there. An iteration's worth of data is worth months of speculation.

  Kent Beck

  Data, People, Important

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• Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.

  Bertrand Meyer

  Perfect, Firsts, Shots

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• Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

  Amar Bose

  Intelligent, Invention, Stumbling

  "Spotlight: Amar Bose, the guru of sound design" by Roxana Popescu, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2007.

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• But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.

  Marvin Minsky

  Doe, Levels, Bigs

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• Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.

  Marvin Minsky

  Simple, Ideas, Common Sense

  Marvin Minsky (1988). “Society Of Mind”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• If we can't program it, we can't understand it.

  David Deutsch

  Program, Ifs

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• My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics, for statistics, for all the "hard" subjects.... In short, I believe more than ever that programming should be a key part of the intellectual development of people growing up.

  Seymour Papert

  Growing Up, Powerful, Believe

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• Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.

  Gwen Ifill

  Pbs, Depth, Analysis

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• With diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly.

  Tom Duff

  Running, Diligence

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• The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

  Seymour Cray

  Technology, Too Late, Coders

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