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Programmer Inspirational Quotes (2874)

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In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable and, secondly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable
Ada Lovelace
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I never am really satisfied that I understand anything because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me, how the matter in question was first thought of or arrived at, etc., etc.
Ada Lovelace
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with.
Ada Lovelace
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I think that Vancouver as well as Canada needs a boot camp for young entrepreneurs. We have already seen tens if not hundreds of people put their names forward to be involved in the program, and we just think this is an amazing way to accelerate what theyre doing.
Ryan Holmes
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[I'm] looking for a good balance between digital and creative work.
Yugo Nakamura
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It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
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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
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Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard, but the message will be sent to a human over the internet. So you are working before the computer, but with a human behind the computer.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
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Plant a memory, plant a tree, do it today for tomorrow.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
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Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
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How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense.
Andy Weir
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I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.
Donald Knuth
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I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.
Gabe Newell
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Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
Elon Musk
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Data is great, but strategy is better
Steven Sinofsky
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In almost any industry, if you're passionate about doing a great job and making people that buy your product or service as happy as possible, it's really fulfilling.
Elon Musk
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PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes?
Rasmus Lerdorf
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Energy is actually harder it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.
Bill Gates
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What is this drive? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.
Aaron Swartz
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But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.
Aaron Swartz
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With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.
Aaron Swartz
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Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.
Aaron Swartz
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Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
Aaron Swartz
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