Programming Quotes - Page 12

• If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

  Scott Adams

  Technology, Done, Condescension And

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• The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go.

  Bill Joy

  Use, Research, Way

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• 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!

  John Carmack

  People, Suffering, Lessons

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• Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.

  Brit Hume

  Stars, Air, Luxury

  "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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• 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.

  Burt Ward

  Children, Mean, Adults

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• We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

  Bill Gates

  Learning, Lines, Way

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• Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Writing, Learning, Mean

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• Ether is the only substance we are confident of in dynamics. One thing we are sure of and that is the reality and substantiality of the luminferous ether.

  Lord Kelvin

  Reality, Substance, Dynamics

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• Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn

  Stephen Hawking

  Skills, Careers, Secret

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• Technology and computers are very much at the core of our economy going forward. To be prepared for the demands of the 21st century-and to take advantage of its opportunities-it is essential that more of our students today learn basic computer programming skills, no matter what field of work they want to pursue.

  Todd Park

  Technology, Opportunity, Skills

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• I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person...as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.

  Jack Dorsey

  Art, Math, Thinking

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• On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

  Charles Babbage

  Ideas, Two, Confusion

  Passages from the Life of a Philosopher ch. 5 (1864) See Countess of Lovelace 1; Modern Proverbs 35

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• Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Science, Technology, Telescopes

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• The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Learning, Errors, Silent

  "Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science". Book by Samskrita Bharati, 1958.

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• Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Branches, Mathematics, Difficult

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.129, Springer Science & Business Media

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• There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Play, Disease, Serious

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.241, Princeton University Press

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• Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.

  Phil McGraw

  Successful, Loss, Weight

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Mean

  Garth Hallett, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1977). “A companion to Wittgenstein's "Philosophical investigations"”, Cornell Univ Pr

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

  Gordon Moore

  Numbers, Months, Integrated

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• If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

  Edward A. Murphy, Jr.

  Success, Two, Way

  "Jargon File". Book by Eric S. Raymond and Guy L. Steele Jr., 1983.

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• When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Hands, Lasts, Program

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.26, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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

  Eric S. Raymond

  Release, Customers

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.29, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Security Systems, Secret, Pseudo

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.46, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Tools, Use, Way

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.44, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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