“I wanted to do live things, needed an audience. Geoff was more of a studio-guy. A real programmer. So pretty soon it was: nice to meet you, bye.”
Beth Gibbons
“In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use.”
Yukihiro Matsumoto
“XM is unique because we have hundreds of programmers delivering millions of songs plus live news, live sports and talk directly to subscribers.”
Chance Patterson
“Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.”
Leonard Brandwein
“CURZON: What is your foreign programme?MUSSOLINI: My foreign policy is `Nothing for Nothing'.”
Benito Mussolini
“The beautiful programme of Watson. its fatal flaw is that it's good for the lab and in the lab; but you put it on and take it off like a lab coat. It does not generate an image of man, a philosophy of life, a conception of human nature. It's not a gu”
Abraham Maslow
“Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.”
Richard Stallman
