Quotes and Sayings About Programming
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
-- Alan Kay -
I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
-- Alan Kay -
The greatest single programming language ever designed
-- Alan Kay -
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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 PerlisSource : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM "SIGPLAN" Notices 17 (9), (pp. 7-13), September 1982.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
-- Alan Perlis -
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
-- Alan Perlis -
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
-- Alan TuringSource : "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Mind - A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, Volume 59, No. 236, p. 450, 1950.
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Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change their state are objects. And then there are things that are not objects. A binary search is not an object. It is an algorithm
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Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.
-- Amar BoseSource : "Spotlight: Amar Bose, the guru of sound design" by Roxana Popescu, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2007.
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If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person who is doing it!
-- Amar BoseSource : "Spotlight: Amar Bose, the guru of sound design" by Roxana Popescu, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2007.
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The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.
-- Amari Cooper -
Your choice of programming model also is your choice of programming model, so to speak.
-- Anders Hejlsberg -
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Programming in Go is like being young again (but more productive!).
-- Anneli Jaatteenmaki -
Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.
-- Bertrand Meyer -
Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!
-- Bertrand Meyer -
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
-- Bjarne Stroustrup -
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We are programmed; we are literally programmed genetically and then we are programmed environmentally and most people never break out of that programming.
-- Bob Proctor -
In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you.
-- Boris Beizer -
The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.
-- Bram Cohen -
A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.
-- Bram Cohen -
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Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.
-- Brian Greene -
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.
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Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven
-- Charles Petzold -
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Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick
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Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.
-- Chris Hardwick