Programming Quotes

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

Go isn't functional, it's pragmatical. Why pure paradigms like FP or OOP are always a must? (sigh)

Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.

Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.

We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldis in Queens.

Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be considered significant by, say, an applied mathematician.

I skip through the programming to watch the commercials.

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it

Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

Television has certainly become a wasteland of quality programming.

The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.

Go is no Erlang, Smalltalk or Scheme, nothing pure. But it works great and is fun!

Ive enjoyed programming on NPR, but were broke and therefore all spending must be reduced.

Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.

Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.

My programming language was solder.

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation of what we see. We become clones of each other.

Programming in Go is like being young again (but more productive!).

Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of reality, imagination spins marvelous patterns.

Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.

We are programmed; we are literally programmed genetically and then we are programmed environmentally and most people never break out of that programming.

Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.

In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you.

So, what does it mean for teaching and learning programming when the solution to every beginner problem is available on the Internet?

The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.

Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.

Our mandate at Nerdist is that we only get involved with nice people around things that we love. We have the luxury of being in the demographic that we're programming for.

By becoming mindful of our cultural programming, we can step out of it.

Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science.

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

C++ tries to guard against Murphy, not Machiavelli.

All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code.

The press is supposed to equip people to act as citizens and not just consumers of programming that happens to be news.

If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming.

Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.

Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.

Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.

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

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

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.