Programming Quotes - Page 7

• There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Technology, Wish, Stories

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• Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

  Ted Nelson

  Technology, Use, Fool

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• Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

  Larry Wall

  Technology, Jurassic Park, Design

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• It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

  Lou Gerstner

  Loss, Technology, Computer

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• It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

  Marvin Minsky

  Technology, Years, Able

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• Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Trying, Friendly

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• The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

  Linus Torvalds

  Stupid, Reading, Technology

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• That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they remember everything, and they don't drink all your beer.

  Paul Leary

  Beer, Technology, Remembers Everything

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• The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.

  David F. Emery

  Technology, People, Computer

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• I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

  Linus Torvalds

  Trust, Data, Differences

  Message to Git mailing list, lwn.net. June 27, 2006.

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• C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Quirky, Computer, Enormous

  "Inventing Unix". Interview with Samuel K. Moore, Steven Cherry, spectrum.ieee.org. May 27, 2011.

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• Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

  Kent Beck

  Technology, Optimism, Hazards

  Kent Beck (2000). “Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change”, p.31, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• The greatest single programming language ever designed

  Alan Kay

  Language, Programming Languages, Lisp

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• Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

  Alan Kay

  Language, Building, Materials

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• Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

  Ted Nelson

  Writing, Design, Program

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• The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.

  John Carmack

  Hands, Years, Wind

  "Knee Deep in John Carmack". Interview with Billy "Wicked" Wilson, November 11, 2000.

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• I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

  Ted Koppel

  Npr, Years, Ideas

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• Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

  Ian Lowe

  Education, Wisdom, Learning

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• It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.

  Steve McConnell

  Murder Mysteries, Needs, Able

  Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.267, Pearson Education

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• The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

  John Ousterhout

  Inspirational, Transition, Improvement

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• Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

  Niklaus Wirth

  People, Causes, Admiration

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• The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

  Tony Hoare

  Simplicity, Reliability, Computer Science

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• Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

  Alan Perlis

  Simplicity, Simple Life, Doe

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

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• I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

  Alan Perlis

  Learning, Technology, Thinking

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• Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

  Alan Kay

  Simple, Simplicity, Should

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