Programming Quotes

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

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

Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.

The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

Beauty is our business.

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

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

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

Successful software always gets changed.

Don't worry about how things are. Watch where they are headed.

Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

Experience doesn't necessarily teach anything.

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

I just want things to work properly.

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.

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

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.

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

I forget sometimes that Im in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like, The Wire is my favorite TV show of all time.

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.

Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.

Stupidity is the only natural capital offense.

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

Your adrenaline starts to go when the market opens in the morning. It's like sports programming.

It [AI] would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded.

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.

My laptop has freed me to travel.

A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

Apple likes me, but they strongly prefer my money.

Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.

I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.

And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

Your choice of programming model also is your choice of programming model, so to speak.

When I'm 18, I can finally order that paid programming stuff on TV. Like it always says, 'Must be 18 or older to call,' so I'll be able to call! I can finally buy some blenders from the TV.

Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.

There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program