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Tag Name "Programming" (616)

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We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.
Molly Ivins
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Stupidity is the only natural capital offense.
Robert A. Heinlein
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We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor.
Joel Spolsky
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The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!
Richard P. Feynman
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Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.
Eric S. Raymond
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Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks
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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
Alan Turing
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Total victory is the only acceptable goal in a mind-control war because humanity is diminished so long as a single mind remains trapped in superstition [supernatural religion] by programming or choice.
Howard Thompson
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XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.
Charles Simonyi
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When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed.
Martin Fowler
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The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.
Ronald Fisher
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All the shopping malls and restaurants and airports are riddled with low-fidelity loudspeakers, which apparently have developed the ability to reproduce by themselves these are all connected to a special programming service called Music That Nobody Really Likes, and you cannot get away from it.
Dave Barry
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When I was 9, I went to a birthday party. We were supposed to see a cowboy movie, but the programming got screwed up and we saw 'The Bad Seed' instead. Horrifying. For years I was frightened of girls with pigtails.
Robert Englund
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It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.
Edsger Dijkstra
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
Edsger Dijkstra
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If you've got a stick hitting a drum and you're programming it on a computer, it's so much more interesting than a sample playing back - it's something in the air, that's the magical ingredient.
Aphex Twin
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I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
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Go isn't functional, it's pragmatical. Why pure paradigms like FP or OOP are always a must? (sigh)
Frank Muller
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Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.
Linus Torvalds
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If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.
Eric S. Raymond
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.
Muhammad Waseem
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Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.
Niklaus Wirth
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We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsic limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers.
Edsger Dijkstra
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