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There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. — Jon Erickson

To make a programming language powerful, you need to make it expressive. Having — Conrad Barski

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. — Edsger Dijkstra

Every programmer is an author. — Sercan Leylek

Marketing is the obverse of programming. — John McAfee

In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning. — Maimonides

In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, "to be, or not to be, that is the question." In the 21st century, "to code, or not to code, that is the challenge. — Newton Lee

I didn't know that empty rationalization was part of your programming," said Ram.
"We would not be fit companions for human beings without it. — Orson Scott Card

I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming. — Kathy Griffin

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

If we can't program it, we can't understand it. — David Deutsch

Programming in Go is like being young again (but more productive!). — Anneli Jaatteenmaki

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college. — Masi Oka

One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic. Perlis 1982 — Alan J. Perlis

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity. — John Romero

All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code. — Dave Thomas

Programming is not easy like Sunday morning, it is silent poetry. — Waseem Latif

Ethernet always wins. — Andy Bechtolsheim

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick — Charles Petzold

But while you can always write 'spaghetti code' in a procedural language, object-oriented languages used poorly can add meatballs to your spaghetti. — Andrew Hunt

All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head. — Ken Keyes Jr.

There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection. — Rob Pike

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower. — Phil McGraw

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

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. — Alan Perlis

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. — Dennis Ritchie

By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains. — Keith Barry

The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem. — Keith Devlin

Your limitations are largely programming instilled by others that you choose to believe. — Gary Hopkins

Computer programming is pretty much guaranteed income. I'm good at it, and I like it. — Andy Weir

I skip through the programming to watch the commercials. — Mel Karmazin

Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it. — Zendaya

Dialogue unplugs you from your own programming as you become more real; debate turns up the voltage and entrenches you more deeply. — Oli Anderson

Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. — Alan Kay

The most beautiful programming language in the world is useless unless it allows you to write the program that you need. — Axel Rauschmayer

The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it. — Marianne Williamson

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

Something about Van has always brought late-night nature programming to mind. — John Wray

So if you want to go fast, if you want to get done quickly, if you want your code to be easy to write, make it easy to read. — Robert C. Martin

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers. — Dave Winer

Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end. — Khalil Gibran

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics. — Richard P. Feynman

You know, I've never accidentally drilled a hole in myself while programming. — Karl Lehenbauer

The Stack terraforms the host planet by drinking and vomiting its elemental juices and spitting up mobile phones. — Benjamin H. Bratton

You should imagine variables as tentacles, rather than boxes. They do not contain values; they grasp them - two variables can refer to the same value. — Marijn Haverbeke

You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming. — Marshall Sylver

programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more. — Why The Lucky Stiff

After you finish the first 90% of a project, you have to finish the other 90%. — Michael Abrash

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support. — Robert W. Floyd

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. — Larry Niven

Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build. — Fred Brooks

BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing. — Seymour Papert

As the old programming adage goes: you had a problem and tried to solve it using regular expressions. — Jeremy Walker

The perfect kind of architecture decision is the one which never has to be made — Robert C. Martin

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls. — Rashida Jones

Distributed programming is the art of solving the same problem that you can solve on a single computer using multiple computers. — Mikito Takada

Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers. — Eric S. Raymond

Talk is cheap. Show me the code. — Linus Torvalds

The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming. — Frederick Lenz

Courses can, and should, incorporate the excitement and fun of programming games, apps or even real digital devices. — Geoff Mulgan

Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does. — Lawrence Bossidy

I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy. — Eric Allman

The press is supposed to equip people to act as citizens and not just consumers of programming that happens to be news. — David Folkenflik

Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better. — Derek Sivers

Think twice, code once. — Waseem Latif

Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. — Edward Berard

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour. — Donald Knuth

Self-programming, what you believe and affirm about yourself, is the basis of who you are. — Marshall Sylver

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

Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected. — Joel Spolsky

Programming is usually taught by examples. — Waseem Latif

Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized. — Ken Keyes Jr.

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming. — Marc Maron

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. — Bill Gates

I love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping. — Joaquin Phoenix

Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose. — Fred Brooks

I think the cultural programming on the ABC is one of the glories of the ABC. — George Brandis

Stupidity is the only natural capital offense. — Robert A. Heinlein

Larry Wall's classic Programming Perl described the three programmer's virtues: hubris, laziness, and impatience. — C.J.S. Hayward

The programming of the consciousness is based upon what is accepted or believed. — Steven Redhead

I never really had the fun teens of exploring the world because I was sitting at home, learning programming. — Markus Persson

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

I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works ... Character driven programming! — Tim DeKay

Redundant comments are just places to collect lies and misinformation. — Robert C. Martin

You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting. — Steve Jobs

the road to programming hell is paved with global variables, — Steve McConnell

To DNA, our most complex programming projects are like pocket calculators. — Randall Munroe

It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming. — Kenny Loggins

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. — Brian Kernighan

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen. — Paul Graham

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today. — Jack Valenti

Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

The science and engineering of programming just isn't good enough to produce flawless software, and that isn't going to change anytime soon. The — Bruce Schneier

Programming is a social activity. — Robert C. Martin

Access to high quality video content
essentially TV programming
has never been better than today — Lloyd Braun

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable — Per Brinch Hansen

Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out. — Chris Pine

Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful. — Rob Pike

We are not the personalities that our egos are so valiantly defending. Our personalities are simply the result of our current programming. — Ken Keyes Jr.

A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming. — Stephen Baxter