Programming Quotes - Page 14

• The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for the successful evolution of all the components needed in a software system.

  Richard E. Pattis

  Learning, Successful, Habitat

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• Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

  Rob Pike

  Learning, Algorithms, Fancy

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• Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented.

  Guido van Rossum

  Hate, Learning, Guarantees That

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• It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Learning, Successful, Principles

  Bjarne Stroustrup (1994). “The Design and Evolution of C++”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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

  Jamie Zawinski

  Mail, Program, Replaced

  "Law of Software Envelopment",

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• When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is nothing more precise than code, there is also nothing more permanent or resistant to change. So the situation frequently crops up where nomenclature confusion drives programmers to begin coding prematurely, and that code becomes the de facto design, regardless of its appropriateness or correctness.

  Amari Cooper

  Learning, Confusion, Design

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• We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Years, Challenges, Important

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• Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

  Henry Spencer

  Roman Numerals, Roots, Squares

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• Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Opportunity, Directors, Actors

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

  Miguel de Icaza

  Language, Programming Languages, Available

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• I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?

  Lewis Carroll

  Trying, Flamingos, Temper

  Lewis Carroll (1869). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.133

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• No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Communication, Technology, Important

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• If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Attitude, Interesting, Problem

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

  Eric S. Raymond

  Debugging, Improvement, Rapids

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.27, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.

  Seymour Papert

  Computer, Typing, Computer Programming

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

  Bram Cohen

  Ideas, Way, Good Way

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• Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Bugs, Absence, Shows

  "Software Engineering Techniques". Report on a conference sponsored by the NATO Science Committee in Rome, Italy, edited by J.N. Buxton and B. Randell, October 27-31, 1969.

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• Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Mean, Way, Site

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• The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Confused, Challenges, Scientist

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• Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

  Donald Knuth

  Funny Inspirational, Bugs, Computer

  Memorandum to Peter van Emde Boas, 29 Mar. 1977

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• The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

  Donald Knuth

  Names, Important, Statistics

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• Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

  Donald Knuth

  Change, Attitude, Learning

  "The Art of Computer Programming. Volume 3". Book by Donald Knuth, www.wired.com. 1973.

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• 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.

  Alan Perlis

  Book, Wonderland, Layman

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM "SIGPLAN" Notices 17 (9), (pp. 7-13), September 1982.

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• A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

  Alan Perlis

  Attention, Levels, Language

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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• One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

  Ken Thompson

  Great Day, Lines, Computer

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