Programming Quotes - Page 39

• The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back.

  Fred Brooks

  Two, Maintenance, Fundamentals

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• Testing is the process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous, so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous.

  James Marcus Bach

  Bugs, Invisible, Process

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• A good threat is worth a thousand tests.

  Boris Beizer

  Tests, Bugs, Threat

  Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

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• If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.

  Boris Beizer

  Rip, Tests, Bugs

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• Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.

  Boris Beizer

  Bugs, Boundaries, Testing

  Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

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• I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

  Martin Fowler

  Writing, Tests, Bugs

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• There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.

  John Maeda

  Machines, Way, Computer

  "Watson Is No Match for Humanity" by John Maeda, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2011.

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• Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children.

  Alex Kingston

  Children, Thinking, America

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• The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

  Anson Mount

  Cable Tv, Television, Tvs

  "To Hell and Back with Anson Mount". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 9, 2012.

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• Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick

  Charles Petzold

  Machines, Eating, Toothpicks

  Charles Petzold (2000). “Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software”, p.517, Microsoft Press

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• I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the primary purpose of Ruby language.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  Purpose, Rubies, World

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• I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby is designed to make programming not only easy but also fun. It allows you to concentrate on the creative side of programming, with less stress.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  Fun, Stress, Believe

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• Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  People, Focus, Needs

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• I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way.

  Rasmus Lerdorf

  Writing, Ideas, Way

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• Just as someone who's been interested in radio and programming for so long, I can usually tell when an interviewer is doing a segment just to fill a programming slot. They ask questions, but they don't care about the answers.

  Chris Hardwick

  Long, Answers, Care

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• It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment.

  Peter Shepherd

  Wisdom, Childhood, Mindfulness

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• You are being programmed all day, every day. You can't stop it, but you can determine if the programming is positive or negative.

  Randy Gage

  Negative, Affirmation, Determine

  Randy Gage (2003). “101 Keys to Your Prosperity: Insights on Health, Happiness and Abundance in Your Life”, p.33, Internet Profit Kit

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• AMC is a fantastic network that does diverse programming, and does it at a really good level and of great quality.

  Jamie Bell

  Quality, Doe, Levels

  "Jamie Bell Talks Turn, Coming to Television, Physical Challenges, Researching the Historical Setting, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

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• If they can shut down ABC News and ABC network programming just because they don't agree on something, it makes you wonder

  Orrin Hatch

  News, Wonder, Agree

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• Your choice of programming model also is your choice of programming model, so to speak.

  Anders Hejlsberg

  Choices, Speak, Models

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• New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering programming costs.

  James Packer

  Order, Cost, Nine

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• A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn't.

  Raymond Simard

  Art, Humorous, Today

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• The reason why people think of programming as being hard is because you're writing down a general rule which is going to be used for lots of instances that a particular instance must process correctly.

  Gerald Jay Sussman

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• [A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity. Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous--tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Special, May

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.619, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• When we had no computers, we had no programming problem either. When we had a few computers, we had a mild programming problem. Confronted with machines a million times as powerful, we are faced with a gigantic programming problem.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Powerful, Machines, Computer

  "Visuals for BP's Venture Research Conference" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. June 5, 1986.

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