Programming Quotes - Page 6

• In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

  Alan Perlis

  Errors, Reborn, Programmers

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• For many phenomena, 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes.

  Joseph M. Juran

  Causes, Stem, Consequence

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• People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Believe, Simple, People

  Jan. 27, 2004, www.imdb.com.

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• The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.

  Bram Cohen

  Want, Problem, Tricks

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• If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it.

  Richard E. Pattis

  Simplicity, Program, Structure

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• I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Growing Up, Television, Patterns

  "Five Oscars as a Producer, Director and Screenwriter". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 17, 1994.

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• The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Clever, Humility, Skulls

  "The humble programmer" by Edsger Dijkstra in "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, Issue 10 (pp. 859-866), dl.acm.org. October 1972.

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming.

  Kathy Griffin

  Hero, Reality, Moles

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• NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.

  Jim Henson

  Black And White, Nbc, Color

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• To teach is to learn twice.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

  Maya Lin

  Math, Perfect, Logic

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• There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

  John von Neumann

  Talking, Knows, Precise

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• Chance favors the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational, Softball, Sports

  Lecture, University of Lille, December 7б 1854.

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• It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

  Alan Perlis

  Change, Vices, Computer

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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• The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Life, Thinking, Secret

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.175, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Choices, Experience, Example

  "Program Development by Stepwise Refinement". Communications of the ACM 14 (4), April 1971.

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• Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

  Dick Wolf

  Stars, Drama, Way

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• The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.

  Dick Wolf

  Heart, Character, House

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• If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Technology, Men, Buttons

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Know what you are talking about.

  Pope John Paul II

  Knowledge, Knowing Jesus, Talking

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• Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Learning, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2667, Delphi Classics

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• Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.'

  Dave Barry

  Technology, Vegetables, Microsoft

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.177, Crown Archetype

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