Programming Quotes - Page 31

• In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

  Tom Robbins

  Men, Artist, Order

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.215, Bantam

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• But if you kept thinking about a fight you’d lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again.

  Karen Russell

  Mom, Fighting, Thinking

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• Cinder twisted up her lips. "Do you think it could have a virus?" "Maybe her programming was overwhelmed by Prince Kai's uncanny hotness.

  Marissa Meyer

  Thinking, Viruses, Lips

  Marissa Meyer (2012). “Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles Book 1)”, p.150, Penguin UK

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• If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming.

  Dean Koontz

  Thinking, Eden, Buffets

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.807, Bantam

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• Hermes rolled his eyes. "Surely you've seen network TV lately. It's clear they don't know whether they're coming or going. That's because Janus is in charge of programming. He loves ordering new shows and cancelling them after two episodes. God of beginnings and endings, after all. Anyway, I was bringing him some magic doormats, and I was double-parked -" "You have to worry about double-parking?" "Will you let me tell the story?" "Sorry."

  Rick Riordan

  Sorry, Eye, Two

  "The Demigod Diaries". Book by Rick Riordan, August 14, 2012.

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• I don't like to think of it as 'stolen'. They have no proof that I didn't plan on giving it back." "You're kidding, right?" He shrugged. "You have no proof either." She squinted back at him. "Were you planning on giving it back?" "Maybe." An orange light blinked on in the corner of Cinder's vision-her cyborg programming picking up on the lie.

  Marissa Meyer

  Lying, Thinking, Light

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• Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but
  how to get old ones out.

  Dee Hock

  Business, Work, Learning

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  Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

  James Joyce

  Inspiring, Encouraging, Mistake

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• Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

  John von Neumann

  Religion, Complicated, Truth Is

  John Von Neumann, F. Br¢dy, Tibor V mos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.626, World Scientific

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• The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

  Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

  Learning, Science, Giving

  Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper (1966). “Historical essays”

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• A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.

  Darwin D. Martin

  Education, Teacher, Jobs

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• One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

  John Dewey

  Education, Teacher, Learning

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• That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

  George Boole

  Learning, Expression, Language

  George Boole (1854). “An Investigation of the Laws of Thought: On which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities”, p.24

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• Go is no Erlang, Smalltalk or Scheme, nothing pure. But it works great and is fun!

  Frank Muller

  Fun, Schemes, Pure

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• Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural programming, and our separation from nature.

  Will Tuttle

  Humility, Animal, Understanding

  Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.288, Lantern Books

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• It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

  Sophocles

  Life, Pain, Adversity

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

  Henry Williams

  Learning, Science, Simplicity

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• No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.

  Mark Gibbs

  Technology, Numbers, People

  "The myth of the digital lifestyle" by Mark Gibbs, www.networkworld.com. January 9, 2006.

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• The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.

  Randall E. Stross

  Creativity, Technology, Order

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• The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner

  Jim Highsmith

  Done, Way, Projects

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• Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

  Fred Brooks

  Firsts, Planning, First Time

  "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering". Book by Fred Brooks, 1975.

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• Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.

  Fred Brooks

  Software, Plans, Implementation

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• The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Army, Degrees, Details

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• A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Want, Causes, Vendors

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