Programming Quotes - Page 37

• Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published. When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in a muddled, incomplete and confusing form. To the discoverer himself it will be only half-understood; to everybody else it will be a mystery. For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

  Freeman Dyson

  Crazy, Science, Discovery

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• Copy and paste is a design error.

  David Parnas

  Funny Inspirational, Errors, Design

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• Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast and very accurate, but they are constrained to perform only one or a few elementary operations at a time. Men are flexible, capable of "programming themselves contingently" on the basis of newly received information. Computing machines are single-minded, constrained by their "pre-programming."

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Men, Band, Machines

  J. C. R. Licklider, Robert W. Taylor (1990). “In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990”

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• A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

  Leslie Lamport

  Failure, Technology, Computer

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• The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Learning, Technology, Mad

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• To iterate is human, to recurse divine.

  L Peter Deutsch

  Technology, Computer, Divine

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• Your programming leads to your thoughts; your thoughts lead to your feelings; your feelings lead to your actions; your actions leads to your results. Therefore, just as is done with a personal computer, by changing your programming, you take the first essential step to changing your results.

  T. Harv Eker

  Feelings, Secret, Essentials

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 09, 2013

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• Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another.

  Geert Hofstede

  Mind, Groups, Culture

  Geert Hofstede (1980). “Culture's Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values”, Sage Publications, Incorporated

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• The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once you learn Lisp you will see what is missing in most other languages.

  Richard Stallman

  Trust, Powerful, Appreciate

  "How I Do My Computing". Personal Website, www.stallman.org.

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• I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this," well, that would be enough immortality for me.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Dirty, Mean, Years

  "Introducing a course on calculi" by Edsger Dijkstra, August 30, 1995.

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• Last year was the fourth or fifth attempt to get fall launched till 'American Idol' comes in January. To be honest, the reality programming we had on last year was considered filler until we could get to the good stuff. It was meant to hopefully get us to January andor to November. To get past baseball. But (it) didn't work very well.

  Mike Darnell

  Baseball, Fall, Reality

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• Making two possibilities a reality. Predicting the future of things we all know. Fighting off the diseased programming Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries. Science fails to recognise the single most Potent element of human existence. Letting the reigns go to the unfoldings faith, Science has failed our world. Science has failed our mother earth.

  Serj Tankian

  Mother, Fighting, Reality

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• As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way.

  Brian Kernighan

  Way, Firsts, Language

  Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie (1988). “C Programming Language”, p.13, Prentice Hall

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• C++ tries to guard against Murphy, not Machiavelli.

  Damian Conway

  Trying, Language, Software Engineering

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• Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

  Alan Kay

  Real, Example, Needs

  "Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk - and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.

  Larry Wall

  Jobs, Fire, Boss

  Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall, Jon Orwant (2012). “Programming Perl: Unmatched Power for Text Processing and Scripting”, p.26, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_

  Brian H. Hook

  Names, Variables, Common

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• The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.

  Larry Wall

  Self, Hands, Smell

  Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant (2004). “Programming Perl: 3rd Edition”, p.4, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language.

  Mark Pearce

  Use, Ease, Language

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• It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing the trival details of a program - such as where its bugs are.

  Robert D Keppel

  Details, Bugs, Language

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• Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

  Rob Pike

  Listening, Language, Unix

  "Rob Pike Responds". Slashdot Interview, interviews.slashdot.org. October 18, 2004.

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• All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Firsts, Evolution, Misconduct

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3198, e-artnow

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• The battle against good and evil is raging now! Look at your television programming and movie advertisements presenting the occult…the demonic…the satanic…the practice of witchcraft and sorcery in popular books…the open hostility toward Christianity and the revival of anti-Semitism. The fight is on for the hearts and minds of our children in ours homes, our schools, our universities, and our society.

  John Hagee

  Children, Book, Home

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• Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.

  Confucius

  Learning, Chinese, Computer Language

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• Most of us become so rigidly fixed in the ruts carved out by genetic programming and social conditioning that we ignore the options of choosing any other course of action. Living exclusively by genetic and social instructions is fine as long as everything goes well. But the moment bioloical or social goals are frustrated- which in the long run is inevitable - a person must formulate new goals, and create a new flow activity for himself, or else he will always waste his energies in inner turmoil.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Running, Long, Goal

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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