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Tag Name "Programming" (616)

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Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write we'll have another one when everyone programs.
Tim O'Reilly
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Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
Ken Olsen
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Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.
Tom Shales
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Scott Adams
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Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.
John Carmack
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You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.
Tony Hoare
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So, what does it mean for teaching and learning programming when the solution to every beginner problem is available on the Internet?
Cay S. Horstmann
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
Bertrand Russell
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It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended purposes. These coders introduce multiplicity where none existed and challenge definitions of intent for the entire environment of programming language, machine and system.
Stephanie Strickland
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People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.'
Johnny Carson
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Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.
Fred Brooks
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With the computer and programming languages, mathematics has newly-acquired tools, and its notation should be reviewed in the light of them. The computer may, in effect, be used as a patient, precise, and knowledgeable native speaker of mathematical notation.
Kenneth E. Iverson
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I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed
Martin Fowler
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
Richard P. Feynman
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Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski
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Experience doesn't necessarily teach anything.
Gerald Weinberg
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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
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The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built.
Niklaus Wirth
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If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.
Edward A. Murphy, Jr.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.
John Maynard Keynes
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Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
Donald Knuth
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan Perlis
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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
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