(3136 quotes found)
“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.''”
C.S. Lewis
“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.”
Edsger Dijkstra
“Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.”
Michael Sinz
“Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare”
Lane Olinghouse
“The winner persistently programs his pluses; the loser mournfully magnifies his minuses.”
William Arthur Ward
“Human instincts are hard-wired programming.”
William Rotsler
“Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for 'the average programmer', you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.”
“Anna (Nicole Smith) would make a good fame-prevention spokesperson in high schools, should such a program ever come into existence”
Carina Chocano
“The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.”
Werner von Braun
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