There was something amazingly enticing about programming. ā Vinton Cerf
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books. ā Alan Turing
If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets. ā Shawn Fanning
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs. ā Joseph Weizenbaum
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. ā Dennis Ritchie
Web programming is the science of coming up with increasingly complicated ways of concatenating strings. ā Greg Brockman
Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning. ā Nicholas Negroponte
Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry ā Ted Nelson
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. ā Seth Lloyd
The hottest new programming language is English. ā Andrej Karpathy
My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program. ā Mark Zuckerberg
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. ā Edsger Dijkstra
Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn ā Stephen Hawking
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. ā Brian Kernighan
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic. ā Eric Allin Cornell
Short Computers Quotes
The best computer is a man, and itās the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. ā Wernher Von Braun
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. ā John Von Neumann
A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows ā Linus Torvalds
Learning is never done without errors and defeat. ā Vladimir Lenin
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. ā Emo Philips
Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, āIt canāt be done.ā ā Eleanor Roosevelt
Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead. ā Jackie Chan
Java is C++ without the guns, clubs and knives. ā James Gosling
My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing. ā Emo Philips
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. ā Albert Einstein
Computers Image Quotes
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ā Pablo Picasso
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. ā Paul R. Ehrlich
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. ā Nicholas Negroponte
A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules. ā Rudy Rucker
Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking. ā Milton Glaser
Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way. ā Rudy Rucker
Beautiful Quotes
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself ā Rumi
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. ā Helen Keller
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. ā Bernard Meltzer
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. ā Steven Weinberg
I've had good times and I've had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I'm in because it could steer me into a depressed state. ā Kevin Gates
No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you. ā Meek Mill
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. ā Ann Landers
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. ā Winston Churchill
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. My teacher was Ferruccio Cusinati ā Maria Callas
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. ā Marcus Aurelius
Computer Programming Work Quotes
Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. ā Linus Torvalds
Computer scientists have so far worked on developing powerful programming languages that make it possible to solve the technical problems of computation. Little effort has gone toward devising the languages of interaction. ā Donald A. Norman
Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated. ā Edsger Dijkstra
Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. ā Walter Chrysler
Experience comes from bad judgment. ā Mark Twain
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. ā Leonardo da Vinci
In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming. ā Iain Banks
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. ā David Parnas
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. ā Richard Buckminster Fuller
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. ā Isaac Asimov
Computer Language Quotes
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. ā Edsger Dijkstra
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off. ā Bjarne Stroustrup
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. ā Martin Fowler
Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind. ā Donald Knuth
Code never lies, comments sometimes do. ā Ron Jeffries
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. ā George Boole
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. ā Larry Wall
Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead consumers of computer science. ā Maria Klawe
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. ā Richard E. Pattis
Programming Languages Quotes
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. ā Alan Kay
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. ā Seymour Cray
C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. ā Dennis Ritchie
Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, "How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?" Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer. ā Steve McConnell
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. ā Richard Hamming
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. ā Robert Sewell
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary. ā Niels Bohr
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. ā Robert Coveyou
Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success. ā Tom DeMarco
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. ā Nathaniel Borenstein
Computer Software Quotes
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. ā Brian Kernighan
The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry. ā Henry Petroski
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. ā Edsger Dijkstra
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. ā Greg Egan
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. ā Craig Reucassel
The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog: it shits on the floor, it destroys things, and stinks - the novice-friendly software embodies the opposite of what computer people have dreamed of for decades: artificial stupidity. It's more human. ā Erik Naggum
Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover. ā Bill Gates
If the genome were a computer, the epigenome would be the software. It instructs the newly divided cells on what type of cells they should be and what they should remain, sometimes for decades, as in the case of individual brain neurons and certain immune cells. ā David Sinclair
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended. ā Wietse Venema
Computer Science Quotes
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. ā Lewis Thomas
Cryptocurrency is the first practical solution to a longstanding problem in computer science called the Byzantine Generals Problem. ā Nick Szabo
I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company. ā Balaji Srinivasan
Atlantis was a highly evolved civilization where the sciences and arts were far more advanced than one might guess. Atlantis was technologically advanced in genetic engineering, computer science, inter-dimensional physics, and artistically developed with electronic music and crystal art forms. ā Frederick Lenz
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. ā Kent Beck
Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet. ā Gerald J. Popek
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur. ā Rudy Rucker
Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random ā Donald Knuth
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. ā Eric S. Raymond
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. ā Howard Aiken
Java Programming Quotes
Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either. ā Guido van Rossum
In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages. ā Guido van Rossum
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious. ā Bjarne Stroustrup
While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers. ā Bill Gates
(In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong. ā Bill Gates
A class, in Java, is where we teach objects how to behave. ā Richard E. Pattis
When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, 'Convert this to Android format.' ā Larry Ellison
We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the Oracle Database 12c, and our programming language brand is this thing called Java. ā Larry Ellison
Programming Funny Quotes
A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. ā Doug Linder
Copy and paste is a design error. ā David Parnas
Life is funny. Iād applied to the wrong graduate program, but that eventually led me to the right grad program. ā Michael J. Massimino
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there. ā Gordon Bell
The 12-step chocolate program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE! ā Terry Moore
It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes. ā Keith Braithwaite
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do ā Dennis Ritchie
When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop. ā Alan Perlis
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month. ā Wernher Von Braun
Software Development Quotes
Deep Learning is a form of human-assisted but mostly constraint-driven software development. It works because a particular smooth relaxation of program space allows a surprisingly efficient and effective local search. Something like that, my favorite definition. ā Andrej Karpathy
The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries. ā Marshall McLuhan
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. ā William J. Clinton
Education builds software for your brain. ā Edward O. Thorp
The single most important thing for any processor is getting adoption by software developers. ā Jensen Huang
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build. ā Bjarne Stroustrup
To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. ā Stephen Hawking
Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn. ā Steve Jobs
I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project. ā Andy Hertzfeld
When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed. ā Martin Fowler
Love Programming Quotes
I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming. ā Kathy Griffin
Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming. ā John Carmack
We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor. ā Shane Claiborne
I love all the shows that encourage people to love, appreciate and help animals. There are more programs about animals than ever, and that pleases me. ā Doris Day
I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room. ā Bill Nye
Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with the capacity to feel, both physically and emotionally. ā Kat Von D
Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression. ā Judy Collins
I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that. ā R. Kelly
You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming. ā Marshall Sylver
When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read books about our solar system; I had pictures of the Space Shuttle on my bedroom wall. And yes, I even went to Space Camp. ā Simon Sinek
Software Engineering Quotes
I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine. ā Steven Levy
Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence. ā Niklaus Wirth
Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software. ā Larry Constantine
If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture. ā Brian Foote
An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable. ā James Gosling
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only. ā Bjarne Stroustrup
A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want. ā Niklaus Wirth
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human. ā Alan Turing
One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning". ā Alan Turing
No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental destruction. What's called for on the Earth at this time is really a change of heart ... the question is really not the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity. ā Jack Kornfield
Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred... Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace. ā Hafez
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village. ā Thabo Mbeki
All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world? ā James Hillman
Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer and operate computer systems ā Kevin Mitnick
When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music. ā Martin Garrix
This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways. ā Bill Gates
Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail. ā Jakob Nielsen
In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few basic ones, and trash the rest. ā Massimo Vignelli
Let's stick to the practical and the concrete: Would you like it if people lived in a virtual world? If machines were smarter than people? If, in the future, people, animals and plants were products of technology? If you don't like these ideas, then for you the computer and biological sciences clearly are dangerous. ā Theodore Kaczynski
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time. ā J. G. Ballard
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. ā Martin Luther King, Jr.
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway. ā Bernard Avishai
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