Programming Quotes

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.

After you finish the first 90% of a project, you have to finish the other 90%.

In English every word can be verbed.

Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code.

It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.

Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.

All models are wrong; some models are useful.

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it!

With diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly.

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

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.

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way

The number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double in about 18 months.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming.

I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job.

Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.

To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.

I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.

A data structure is just a stupid programming language.

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

I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.

Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well.

New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering programming costs.

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

Apple likes me, but they strongly prefer my money.

In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design.

Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.

Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.

Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.

A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.

I love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping.

The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation.

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.

Successful software always gets changed.

The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.

Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

Experience doesn't necessarily teach anything.

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

Any noun can be verbed.