Programming Quotes - Page 33

• The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem.

  Keith Devlin

  Education, Real, Science

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• Ive enjoyed programming on NPR, but were broke and therefore all spending must be reduced.

  Jaime Herrera Beutler

  Npr, Broke, Spending

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• If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles – but you’d be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature that.

  Marcus J. Ranum

  Car, Able, Wheels

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• Good information architecture enables people to find and do what they came for. Great information architecture takes find out of the equation: the site behaves as the visitor expects. Poor or missing information architecture neuters content, design, and programming and devalues the site for its owners as well as the audience it was created to serve. It’s like a film with no director. The actors may be good, the sets may be lovely, but audiences will leave soon after the opening credits.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  People, Design, Missing

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• The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and you have all the tools necessary to work your way to any level of programming skill you want to shoot for.

  John Carmack

  Cds, Skills, Tools

  "Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture". Book by David Kushner, May 6, 2003.

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• You are not in the world...the world is in you," what did he mean? [That is, you are not in the world," that is, there is no "you" that is real or in any world. "The world is in you" means that the world is in your "mind" and is nothing more than a figment of your programming-and-conditioning-induced imaginings.]

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Real, Mean, Mind

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• Most of the media bullshit you about who they are. We don’t. We’re not programming to conservatives, we’re just not eliminating their point of view.

  Roger Ailes

  Views, Media, Bullshit

  "Roger Ailes, Polarizing Ex-Fox News Chief, Dies at 77" by Paul Bond, May 18, 2017.

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• Once you succeed in writing the programs for [these] complicated algorithms, they usually run extremely fast. The computer doesn't need to understand the algorithm, its task is only to run the programs.

  Robert Tarjan

  Running, Writing, Learning

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• Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve inherently complex problems, which often do require complex mechanisms. However, this should not diminish our desire for elegant solutions, which convince by their clarity and effectiveness. Simple, elegant solutions are more effective, but they are harder to find than complex ones, and they require more time, which we too often believe to be unaffordable

  Niklaus Wirth

  Strong, Believe, Learning

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• The data shows pretty clearly that how voters watch video programming is dramatically changing and reinforces the need for political campaigns to better match their communications outreach efforts to the voters’ changing media habits.

  Neil Newhouse

  Communication, Media, Data

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• The ALGOL compiler was probably one of the nicest pieces of code to come out at that time. I spent hours trying to fix and change the compiler. Working with it so closely affected the way I think about programming and had a profound influence on my style.

  Gary Kildall

  Thinking, Profound, Style

  "Programmers at Work". Book by Gary Kildall, 1986.

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• Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles... They all sounded to me like extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly.

  Joel Spolsky

  Talking, Listening, Mind

  "The StackOverflow Podcast #38" with Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, stackoverflow.fogbugz.com. January 22, 2009.

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• The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Memories, Floating

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• Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.

  Bill Gates

  Pieces, Rewriting, Form

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• The press is supposed to equip people to act as citizens and not just consumers of programming that happens to be news.

  David Folkenflik

  People, Citizens, News

  "What Is - Or Should Be - Media's Role In Donald Trump's Rise?". "Weekend Edition Saturday", www.npr.org. April 2, 2016.

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• It feels like it is a daily work and an ongoing task to undo all of the f - - g programming that I have had all my life about who I am supposed to be and how I'm supposed to look and that I'm supposed to win. It's a daily deconstruction of all that bullshit.

  Amanda Palmer

  Winning, Who I Am, Bullshit

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• By becoming mindful of our cultural programming, we can step out of it.

  Christiane Northrup

  Becoming, Steps

  "Christiane Northrup, MD, New York Times Best-Selling Author: Growing Older Mindfully". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• I could hire every producer in Hollywood - 2,000 producers, let's say - and they couldn't come up with all the soap operas, in season and out of season, that NFL programming gives television.

  Jerry Jones

  Nfl, Giving, Opera

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Programming is all about numbers.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Numbers

  "What Makes Shigeru Miyamoto Tick". Interview With Stephen Totilo, kotaku.com. July 6, 2016.

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• It feels like a totally different MTV now.Now they have all their own original series, and people are talking about going back to music now? It's all original programming.

  Harry Elfont

  Talking, Mtv, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Humorous, Phones, Intellectual

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas”, p.75, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In the province of the mind what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits. These limits are to be found experimentally and experientially. When so found these limits turn out to be further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind there are no limits.

  John C. Lilly

  Believe, Mind, Limits

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• The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code.

  Robert Cecil Martin

  Use, Comment, Code

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• The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can’t always tell the difference.

  Jeff Atwood

  Pain, Exercise, Differences

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• Would you rather Test-First, or Debug-Later ?

  Robert Cecil Martin

  Tests, Firsts

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