Programming Quotes - Page 6

We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.

A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.

The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.

Any noun can be verbed.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

Television has certainly become a wasteland of quality programming.

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

I skip through the programming to watch the commercials.

We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.

Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.

Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

Go isn't functional, it's pragmatical. Why pure paradigms like FP or OOP are always a must? (sigh)

There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.

Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.

Your choice of programming model also is your choice of programming model, so to speak.

The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.