Programming Quotes
A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.
Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.
The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.
If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better
In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
Cinder twisted up her lips. "Do you think it could have a virus?" "Maybe her programming was overwhelmed by Prince Kai's uncanny hotness.
But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.
I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in.
The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code.
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
You are being programmed all day, every day. You can't stop it, but you can determine if the programming is positive or negative.
You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming.
Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.
Words belong to those who use them only till someone else steals them back.
It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.
Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.
When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.
Self-programming, what you believe and affirm about yourself, is the basis of who you are.
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines.
Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.
There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming.
Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.
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.
I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if made, can be reliably detected at compile time.
Some people become dullards, but as children we are all creative. It's in the programming, the socialization, that we lose our sense of play.
I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.
You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.