Programming Quotes - Page 22

• What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself... The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true?

  Douglas Adams

  Teacher, Stupid, Mean

  "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". Book by Douglas Adams, 1987.

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• The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. Sure, any given feature list can be implemented, given enough coding time. But in addition to coming out late, you will usually wind up with a codebase that is so fragile that new ideas that should be dead-simple wind up taking longer and longer to work into the tangled existing web. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.

  John Carmack

  Learning, Fighting, Simple

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• Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

  Tony Buzan

  Educational, Learning, Skills

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• Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.

  Linus Torvalds

  Simplicity, Bugs, Complexity

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• Always remember, however, that there’s usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops into your head.

  Donald Knuth

  Firsts, Way, Remember

  Donald Ervin Knuth (1986). “The METAFONTbook”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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

  Per Brinch Hansen

  Art, Writing, Crystals

  Per Brinch Hansen (1996). “The search for simplicity: essays in parallel programming”, IEEE

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• Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

  Gordon Bell

  Ideas, Disaster, Bigs

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• The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.

  Alan Kay

  Design, Coins, Done

  ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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

  Derek Sivers

  Writing, Reason, Behinds

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

  Red Adair

  Jobs, Thinking, Design

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• One of the things I didn't like about school is that every time they told a story about a rich guy in school, he was an evil guy. Our school system is programming us to think the rich are greedy and evil.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  School, Thinking, Evil

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• Programming today is the opposite of diamond mining. In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt.

  Charles Simonyi

  Real, Opposites, Today

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• A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Educational, Creativity

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

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thoughtful, Interesting, Television

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.249, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.

  Trent Reznor

  Games, Careers, Design

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• Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with the capacity to feel, both physically and emotionally.

  Kat Von D

  Animal, Reality, Years

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• When people look at the ratings and they're bad, I think people can get an idea of "Why would they even make the show?" And to a certain extent, original programming for any network is a loss leader to try to get you to keep the channel on your cable package.

  Scott Aukerman

  Loss, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Sports, Morning, Adrenaline

  "Sallie Krawcheck of Ellevest and the Gender Investing Gap". Interview with Denver Frederick, www.denver-frederick.com. August 18, 2016.

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• 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.

  Alicia Keys

  Thinking, World, Emulation

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Some people become dullards, but as children we are all creative. It's in the programming, the socialization, that we lose our sense of play.

  Julie Taymor

  Children, Play, People

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Television has certainly become a wasteland of quality programming.

  Robin Leach

  Quality, Television, Wasteland

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• De-programming the perfunctory ways of meat, dairy, egg and honey-eaters is possible. Conservatively speaking, my lectures have converted hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, while hundreds of thousands more have significantly reduced their meat, cheese, milk, honey and egg intake. Abolition and reduction are the only proper ways to end a Holocaust.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Eggs, People, Holocaust

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• Even in our own agriculture strategy, if we got a great new drought-resistant seed and we managed to get it distributed in the system, we just assumed that it would reach female farmers. That's a false assumption, because women don't interact with agro-dealers. So if you don't develop specific programming to ensure that seed gets in a woman's hands, then the extra income [generated by higher-yielding crops] goes into her husband's hands.

  Melinda Gates

  Husband, Hands, Agriculture

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When I first auditioned for Dexter... Well, I was sent the script, and I read it and loved it, and I knew right away that it was going to be a hit because it's the type of programming that I like to watch. It's that very morally ambiguous thing where you find yourself rooting for someone who's really an awful person, but... is he doing good? You're constantly calling into question your own moral code. I love that as an audience member.

  Julie Benz

  Finding Yourself, Calling, Awful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I look at the successful people that have, you know, high functioning autism and Asperger's, they're ones where maybe the parents were in the computer industry and they just taught the kids programming at, you know, age eight and nine and they just went on into the industry with their parents.

  Temple Grandin

  Kids, Successful, Eight

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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