Programmers Quotes - Page 14

• I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs.

  Fred Brooks

  Writing, Flow, Program

  9 Copy quote

• It is, therefore, possible to extend a partially specified interpretation to a complete interpretation, without loss of verifiability... This fact offers the possibility of automatic verification of programs, the programmer merely tagging entrances and one edge in each innermost loop.

  Robert W. Floyd

  Loss, Facts, Possibility

  "Assigning Meanings to Programs" by Robert W. Floyd, published in "Proceedings of Symposium on Applied Mathematics", Volume 19 (p. 25), 1967.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

  John Carmack

  Clever, Years, Law

  GameSpy.com Interview with Tom Ham, January 2004.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.

  Donald Knuth

  Levels, Psychological, Lows

  Interview with Jack Woehr, Dr. Dobb's Journal, April 1996.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source