“ A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen. ”
- Paul Graham- Copy
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“ We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals… ”
- Gerald Weinberg- Copy
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“ BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company. ”
- Anon.- Copy
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“ When someone says I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done, give him a lollipop. ”
- Alan Perlis- Copy
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“ In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language - only we can't control when the 5 year period will begin. ”
- Alan Perlis- Copy
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“ Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. ”
- Stewart Alsop- Copy
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“ I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job. ”
- Roger Ailes- Copy
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“ It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. ”
- Professor Edsger Dijkstra- Copy
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“ If debugging is the art of removing bugs, then programming must be the art of inserting them. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. ”
- Rich Cook- Copy
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“ As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs. ”
- Maurice Wilkes- Copy
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“ The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language. ”
- Donald Knuth- Copy
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“ My feeling is that when we prepare a program, the experience can be just like composing poetry or music; as Andrei Ershov has said, programming can give us both intellectual and emotional satisfaction, because it is a real achievement to master complexity and to establish a system of consistent rules. ”
- Donald Knuth- Copy
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“ The thesis… is that the advantages of executability and universality found in programming languages can be effectively combined, in a single coherent language, with the advantages offered by mathematical notation. ”
- Ken Iverson- Copy
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“ T]he initial motive for developing APL was to provide a tool for writing and teaching. Although APL has been exploited mostly in commercial programming, I continue to believe that its most important use remains to be exploited: as a simple, precise, executable notation for the teaching of a wide range of subjects. ”
- Ken Iverson- Copy
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“ There's the obvious musical programming - the slavish conformity of programmers and the overwhelming triumph of play lists and 'emphasis cuts' seen all around the country. It should be obvious to anyone listening to the radio that, like fast food, there is a lack of distinction everywhere you look. ”
- John Hall- Copy
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“ If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas. ”
- Harold Hal Abelson- Copy
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“ Most people frequently encounter negative people in their lives and negative programming on television — which is exactly why so many people have opened their hearts to the positive oriented Oprah Winfrey and her show. Even when Oprah tackles negative issues, she brings out a positive lesson or message entailed in them. ”
- Mary Kay Ash- Copy
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