Programming Quotes - Page 36

• Instructional programming is really great. To me, it's very enjoyable to watch a process.

  Thu Tran

  Watches, Process, Really Great

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.

  David Nevins

  Ambition, Simple, Swinging For The Fences

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• Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I think that's so particularly exciting about this moment in time is all the new platforms that are now existing, the Netflixes and the Hulus and Amazons and so and so forth; I mean they are really doing what pay TV was doing twenty years ago. So a show like Dancing On The Edge gets to have a digital life after it's playing on Starz. I think what's exciting is how these new platforms are providing more opportunities both for first-run programming on the one hand but also for second plays for shows that have appeared first either on traditional broadcast or on cable.

  Colin Callender

  Running, Mean, Opportunity

  Source: deadline.com

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• I think that the marketplace has changed in many dramatic ways but actually in some sense it's remained the same because the challenge of creating quality programming is the same, and I've always thought that if you follow the great material everything else will fall in to place.

  Colin Callender

  Fall, Thinking, Creating

  Source: deadline.com

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• Every time someone does a Western movie, people flock to it. It's like, we're continually programming to people who are least likely to watch us. People in Nebraska aren't watching things on the computer, they're watching television. Why aren't we programming things for them? We only program things that appeal to New York and Los Angeles and in many ways spit on the rest of the country.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Country, New York, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.

  Billy Graham

  Evil, Choices, Robots

  Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.298, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.'

  Johnny Carson

  Hypocrite, Islands, People

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• And ultimately, it's good for all of us to have more original programming on the air. Business doesn't drive the creative. So, in identifying a project like Dovekeepers, looking at something like Extant and looking at Under the Dome, it was about falling in love with a piece of material, getting excited by the creative direction, hearing a vision, and getting excited about the potential for those projects and building the business model around it. And they're not all modeled the same way. Every one is different.

  Nina Tassler

  Falling In Love, Air, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of reality, imagination spins marvelous patterns.

  August Strindberg

  Reality, Imagination, Patterns

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• My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category. Thus, I follow the literature on programming languages and the debates about programming languages primarily looking for ideas for solutions to problems my colleagues and I have encountered in real applications. Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Real, Fall, Inspiration

  Bjarne Stroustrup (1994). “The Design and Evolution of C++”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political campaign strategy. It is the theme of much television programming across the world. It sells newspapers. Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Sports, Blood, Long

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• Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.

  Chris Hardwick

  Nerd, Treasure, Grew Up

  Interview with Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view and opinion come from all the programming they received growing up. When you take things personally, you feel offended and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflict. You make something big out of something so little because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Growing Up, Insults You

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• I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after you make a comfortable living, how much more do you need? It's like I make a joke about nerd values, because I'm very much in the rich nerd tradition. And you know, we say, like, hey, people pay us for this stuff, like programming. You know, what else do we need?

  Craig Newmark

  Money, Jobs, Technology

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• God is in the details.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  God, Educational, Learning

  Quoted in Architectural Forum, May 1958 See Flaubert 3; Modern Proverbs 24; Warburg 1

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• Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Giving Up, Mean, Addiction

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• All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Life Is, Consciousness, Moments

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• The outside conditions of your life do not make you feel either secure or insecure. One person may feel secure with practically no money at all, while another may feel insecure with a million dollars in the bank. Your feelings of security or insecurity are due to your emotional programming.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Insecure, Emotional, Feelings

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• We are not the personalities that our egos are so valiantly defending. Our personalities are simply the result of our current programming.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Personality, Ego, Consciousness

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• Whenever you feel upset, take full responsibility for the emotions that you are experiencing. Get to work as quickly as possible identifying the programming, or the addiction, that is leading you to reject what other people are saying or doing.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Responsibility, People, Addiction

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• Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

  Clifford Stoll

  Funny, Meaningful, Witty

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• There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

  Freeman Dyson

  People, Tools, Use

  "Disturbing the universe". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1979.

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• If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Running, Science, Discovery

  Arthur C. Clarke (1968). “the Promise of Space”

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• Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Science, Discovery, Woods

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