Programming Quotes - Page 3

• The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

  Eric Schmidt

  Humanity, Criminals, Criminal Mind

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  We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

  Alan Turing

  Travel, Distance, Needs

  Alan Mathison Turing, B. J. Copeland (2004). “The Essential Turing”, p.463, Oxford University Press

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• Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

  Alan Turing

  Machines, Surprise, Take Me

  "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Mind - A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, Volume 59, No. 236, p. 450, 1950.

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• Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

  Virginia Woolf

  Funny, Humor, Happened

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Forgiveness, Believe, Law

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• Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

  Roger Ebert

  Reading, Library Research, Rats

  "Critical Eye". Yahoo! Internet Life, September 1998.

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• Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

  Michael Shermer

  Animal, Stories, Patterns

  "Out of This World" by Michael Shermer, www.washingtonpost.com. November 21, 1999.

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• I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

  Mark Twain

  Flower, Writing, Mean

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• Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Learning, Language

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.106, Routledge

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• The best writing is rewriting.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Learning, Rewriting

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• Good software, like wine, takes time.

  Joel Spolsky

  Wine, Software, Take Time

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• If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.

  Hal Abelson

  Real, Ideas, Numbers

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• My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Teacher, Teaching, Simple

  "Geek of the Week: Niklaus Wirth". Interview with Richard Morris, www.red-gate.com. July 26, 2012.

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• We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsic limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Appreciation, Jobs, Humble

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• The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change is the emergence of what might best be called procedural epistemology-the study of the structure of knowledge from an imperative point of view, as opposed to the more declarative point of view taken by classical mathematical subjects.

  Hal Abelson

  Taken, Learning, Thinking

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• Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it in the same way twice.

  Caroline Alexander

  Learning, Use, Patterns

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• Dakin (to Irwin, his teacher): Do you really believe that, sir, or are you just trying to make us think?

  Anthony Bennett

  Teacher, Believe, Learning

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• The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

  Fred Brooks

  Learning, Essence, Arriving

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• In a way, math isn't the art of answering mathematical questions, it is the art of asking the right questions, the questions that give you insight, the ones that lead you in interesting directions, the ones that connect with lots of other interesting questions -the ones with beautiful answers.

  Gregory Chaitin

  Beautiful, Art, Learning

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• Every reader should ask himself periodically “Toward what end, toward what end?”—but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.

  Alan Perlis

  Fun, Philosophy, Bittersweet

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• Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident. If we want our young women to retain these traits into adulthood, a great option is to expose them to computer programming in their youth.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Kids, Creative, Want

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• The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.

  Stephen Wolfram

  Work, Math, Thinking

  Interview with Hal Varian, www.stephenwolfram.com. 1996.

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• Apple likes me, but they strongly prefer my money.

  Tom Anderson

  Apples, Likes

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• Responsible Development is the style of development I aspire to now. It can be summarized by answering the question, How would I develop if it were my money? I'm amazed how many theoretical arguments evaporate when faced with this question.

  Kent Beck

  Style, Development, Argument

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• Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These lead me to pairing, test-first, incremental design, continuous integration and so on because they support the values.

  Kent Beck

  Honesty, Responsibility, Practice

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