Programming Quotations | Page 2

It's just programming" "No. It's because I love him

Good code is its own best documentation.

I don't like programming. It's tedious.

There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming.

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.

The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.

My laptop has freed me to travel.

The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.

There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.

Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.

Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.

A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.

When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

What I can't create I don't understand

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer...

Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.

There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.

Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.

It [AI] would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded.

Stupidity is the only natural capital offense.