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There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.
— Jon Erickson
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
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
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
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic. Perlis 1982
— Alan J. Perlis
All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code.
— Dave Thomas
Ethernet always wins.
— Andy Bechtolsheim
Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick
— Charles Petzold
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.
Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.
— Phil McGraw
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
— Alan Perlis
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
I skip through the programming to watch the commercials.
— Mel Karmazin
Dialogue unplugs you from your own programming as you become more real; debate turns up the voltage and entrenches you more deeply.
— Oli Anderson
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
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
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.
— Richard P. Feynman
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
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
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
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.
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
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
I never really had the fun teens of exploring the world because I was sitting at home, learning programming.
— Markus Persson
Redundant comments are just places to collect lies and misinformation.
— Robert C. Martin
the road to programming hell is paved with global variables,
— Steve McConnell
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
— Brian Kernighan
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
Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.
— Rob Pike
