Programming Quotes - Page 27

• Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change their state are objects. And then there are things that are not objects. A binary search is not an object. It is an algorithm

  Alexander Stepanov

  Thinking, Algorithms, States

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

  Anneli Jaatteenmaki

  Young, Productive

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• I don't like programming. It's tedious.

  Rasmus Lerdorf

  Techie, Tedious

  "Why the father of PHP doesn’t like programming". DevBeat conference, venturebeat.com. November 13, 2013.

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• It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Mathematical Equations, Technique, Algorithms

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• Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge down in plans.

  Barry Boehm

  Team, Writing, Agility

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• I look forward to beginning a relationship with Al Jazeera America, which has made a commitment to producing quality programming and pursuing underreported stories.

  Soledad O'Brien

  Commitment, America, Quality

  "Soledad O'Brien Joins Al Jazeera America as Special Correspondent" by Erik Hayden, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 01, 2013.

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• I really wanted to believe that there were these magic celestial bodies that would direct my life, tell me what to do, and it turns out it's not stars, it's some bits of screwy DNA. I'm just meat with faulty programming.

  Lauren Beukes

  Stars, Believe, Dna

  Lauren Beukes (2010). “Zoo City”, p.150, Jacana Media

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• Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

  Douglas Crockford

  Data, Crafts, Requirements

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• JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.

  Douglas Crockford

  Misunderstood, World, Javascript

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• You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming.

  Marshall Sylver

  Believe, Self, Currents

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• Self-programming, what you believe and affirm about yourself, is the basis of who you are.

  Marshall Sylver

  Believe, Self, Bases

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

  Boris Beizer

  Specifications

  Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

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• The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs.

  Harlan Mills

  Errors, Sitting, Way

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• There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming.

  Rasmus Lerdorf

  People

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• I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.

  Rasmus Lerdorf

  Hate, Problem, Problem Solving

  "Interview – PHP’s Creator, Rasmus Lerdorf". Interview with Kevin Yank, www.sitepoint.com. May 22, 2002.

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• The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

  Carl Sagan

  Ignorance, Media, Sound

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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• Embryos turn into babies; buds turn into blossoms; acorns turn into oak trees. The same programming that exists in them exists in each of us - to manifest our highest potential. What is the difference between those things and us? That we can say no...So today, say yes.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Baby, Differences

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 12, 2013

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• Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious... Patients are people who have had too much programming - so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Self, People, Too Much

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• In recent years we've seen an explosion of creative programming, and I think it represents a third golden age of television because the creators have more control over the story. The audience doesn't care about the platform. They care about the content.

  Kevin Spacey

  Wisdom, Thinking, Years

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• Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.

  Muhammad Waseem

  Men, Giving, Computer

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• The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.

  Timothy Leary

  Responsibility, Brain, Machines

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• I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end".

  Douglas Adams

  Apples, Might, Computer

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• Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

  Donald Knuth

  Everyday, Life Is Like, Ifs

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• I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Responsibility, People, Action

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