Roman Harper quotes

“Programming is an explanatory activity.”
-- Roman Harper

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“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”

“Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.”

“We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.”

“If you desire ease, forsake learning.”

“Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.”

“A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

“I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.”

“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.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM "SIGPLAN" Notices 17 (9), (pp. 7-13), September 1982.

“Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.”

“Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.”

Source : "Spotlight: Amar Bose, the guru of sound design" by Roxana Popescu, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2007.