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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic. — Imre Lakatos
Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning. — Nicholas Negroponte
Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures. — Douglas Crockford
Your mind is programmable – if you’re not programming your mind, someone else will program it for you. — Jeremy Hammond
The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies. — Imre Lakatos
There was something amazingly enticing about programming. — Vinton Cerf
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. — Hal Abelson
I hate the word 'production'...it's a ceremony, it's a ritual...you should go out of the theatre stronger and more human than when you went in. — Ariane Mnouchkine
The hottest new programming language is English. — Andrej Karpathy
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 — Stephen Hawking
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books. — Alan Turing
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. — Seth Lloyd
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. — Joseph Weizenbaum
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. — Grady Booch
All the gradualist programmes ended badly, while all the shock programmes – except the one of 1959 – were successful. — Javier Milei
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- It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein
- The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. — Edsger Dijkstra
- A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. — Doug Linder
- I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. — Kent Beck
- Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory. — Coco Chanel
- When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. — Richard E. Pattis
- Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours. — John Carmack
- Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. — Niklaus Wirth
- C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. — Dennis Ritchie
- The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there. — Gordon Bell
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In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme Hunger in America. — Naomi Wolf
That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it. — M.C. Beaton
If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level. — Jean Baudrillard
There is a tradition of television which isn't dross and stands up. Betjeman's programmes, which were made for 2/6d with one man and a cine camera, were amazing to watch because he was such a great talker. — Jonathan Meades
To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents. — Edwin Newman
This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France's international television channel TV5. So I ended up with a double production, on France 2 and TV5. — Bernard Pivot
The days of holding the audience captive to watching television at times that programmers tell them they have to watch it are coming to an end. It's a new world, where the viewer and fan wants to watch whatever they want to watch, whenever they want to watch it. — Joseph McGinty Nichol
In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. Its nauseating, programme after programme. — Ken Stott
Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs? — David Attenborough
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The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else. — Gabe Newell
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. — Linus Torvalds
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy. — Margaret Thatcher
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. — 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. — Bjarne Stroustrup
It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached. — Imre Lakatos
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for. — David Attenborough
Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain. — Alan Turing
(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt. — Margaret Thatcher
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler
We invented the Chemputer to make chemistry universal with respect to digital programmability. This is why chemputation should have significant reach across science & technology. — Lee Cronin
I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels. — Mithun Chakraborty
The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls. — Charley Pride
Money is being made programmable. That's a fundamental change with implications we can still barely see. —
Bitcoin is a way to have programmable scarcity. The blockchain is the data structure that records the transfer of scarce objects. — Balaji Srinivasan
Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. — Linus Torvalds
I have met with political leaders, legislators, and diplomats, seeking the next steps to press in reducing and eliminating the nuclear threat in this century. I have participated in public coalitions developing programmes for action to combat the global rash of small arms. All are trying and making a difference. — Michael Douglas
Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. A programmer who subconsciously views himself as an artist will enjoy what he does and will do it better. — Donald Knuth
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing. — Dick Brandon
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. — John Carmack
The idea that there’s extra-sovereign money that’s native to the Internet and programmable is foreign to them because their money is always something that has been provided by the government and controlled by the government. They just cannot imagine it any other way. — Naval Ravikant
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for. — Chris Sacca
The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme. — Howard Carter
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. — Eric S. Raymond
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. — Seymour Cray
Iran also has an extensive missile development programme. Iranian officials declare that the range of their modified Shahab-3 missiles is 2,000km, putting allied countries such as Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria within reach. — Anders Fogh Rasmussen
I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now. — David Lange
I wouldn't call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers. And I do watch TV, but only informative programmes like the news and documentaries. — Adora Svitak
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. — Seymoure Cray
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