(3160 quotes found)
“Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.”
Michael Sinz
“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
“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.''”
C.S. Lewis
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
Bill Gates
“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
“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.”
“The winner persistently programs his pluses; the loser mournfully magnifies his minuses.”
William Arthur Ward
“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
“Human instincts are hard-wired programming.”
William Rotsler
“A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.”
Guy Kawasaki
