Programmers Quotes Page 2

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.

The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

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.

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

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.

Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication.

All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed biocomputers. No one of us can escape our own nature as programmable entities. Literally, each of us may be our programs, nothing more, nothing less.

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

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.

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.

It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones.

They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.

Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light.

The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.

I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Our motto is 'from cradle to grave.' Unwanted babies are delivered to us through our cradle programme, where we work to find new homes for them for parents desiring children. In addition to our healthcare programmes, we also have a programme for burying the dead, meeting all the necessary expenses for those who are unable to do so.

Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our efforts to include young people in policies, programmes and decision-making processes that benefit their futures and ours.

But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning — for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.

The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

Know what you're talking about.

An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic, talkative child. And that was part of my mother's creative solution - to put me in workshops and classes and children's theatre programmes.

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit

Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need.

Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered.

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme.

I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.

The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.