Programming Quotes - Page 34

• On prime time entertainment television, scientists are most at risk. Ten percent of scientists featured in prime-time entertainment programming get killed, and five percent kill someone. No other occupational group is more likely to kill or be killed.

  George Gerbner

  Risk, Groups, Television

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• Sequential programming is really hard, and parallel programming is a step beyond that.

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Steps, Parallels, Hard

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• Maybe today we aren't being told that our brains are not capable of such things [like programming], but we [as a women] are being told that we are not good enough or smart enough or that our successes do not belong to us.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Smart, Not Good Enough, Brain

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.

  Glenn Beck

  Morning, Thinking, Dollars

  "Nobody's Watching Charlie Rose". Interview with James Taranto, www.wsj.com. January 16, 2010.

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• It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.

  Richard Dawkins

  Animal, Important, Realizing

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• Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Bugs, Absence, Program

  "Notes On Structured Programming" by Edsger Dijkstra, April 1970.

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• Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

  Rashida Jones

  Girl, Real, Littles

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• Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

  Shirley Manson

  Artist, Voice, Support

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• There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny Inspirational, Freedom, Business

  "The Divine Afflatus". New York Evening Mail, November 16, 1917; reprinted in H. L. Mencken "Prejudices: Second Series", 1920, and in "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing" edited by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• It's a dream realized to partner with Oprah and bring scripted programming to OWN. She has accomplished so much with the network, and I'm excited to work with her to be a part of its continued growth.

  Tyler Perry

  Dream, Growth, Excited

  "Oprah Winfrey's OWN Inks Multi-Year Deal With Tyler Perry" by Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 1, 2012.

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• My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Real, School, Hierarchy

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• Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.

  Tom Shales

  Mean, Excess, Television

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• An interactive debugger is an outstanding example of what is not needed - it encourages trial-and-error hacking rather than systematic design, and also hides marginal people barely qualified for precision programming.

  Harlan Mills

  Errors, People, Design

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• The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code.

  Douglas McIlroy

  Real, Hero, Writing

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• Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do everything.' But it's just plain impossible to design a perfect language, because there are two ways to look at a language. One way is by looking at what can be done with that language. The other is by looking at how we feel using that language-how we feel while programming.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  Two, Perfect, Design

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• I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say Yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that. I'll just restart Apache every 10 requests.

  Rasmus Lerdorf

  Memories, Real, Moving

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• Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

  Richard Stallman

  Crafts

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• I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy.

  Eric Allman

  Believe, Joy, Plot

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• GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.

  Raymond Simard

  Complaining, Tools, Computer

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• Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.

  Karl Lehenbauer

  Trying, Computer, Sometimes

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• Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

  Richard Hamming

  Toes, Computer, Scientist

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• Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Writing, Mean, Kids

  "Negroponte: Laptop for Every Kid". Interview with Kevin Poulsen, www.wired.com. November 17, 2005.

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• The television industry claims they are only reflecting society with their programming and have no influence on behavior. If that is the case then why do businesses spend millions on TV ads that have no influence?

  Randall Wright

  Television, Tvs, Influence

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• Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

  Donald Knuth

  Art, Want, Computer

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• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Believe, Generations, Looks

  "Malcolm McLaren on bringing bollocks back to the BBC" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.

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