Program Quotes - Page 5

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accomodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.

A good threat is worth a thousand tests.

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

Culture is your operating system.

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.

MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work.

Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.

If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.

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

Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed.

If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

For sure, to be exact, one seventh of my patients never graduated my program.

Would you rather Test-First, or Debug-Later ?

We didn’t admit it at the time, but practically the Whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started.

You are being programmed all day, every day. You can't stop it, but you can determine if the programming is positive or negative.

The Phoenix Program is must reading for all.

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

MBA programs are underwritten by large companies and they succeed at producing future employees of large companies. In that regard, they are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing.

Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.