P Quotes
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“Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.”
“Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.”
“Programming is not easy like Sunday morning, it is silent poetry.”
“Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.”
Source: Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective
“Programming is quite difficult – if you make a mistake, a bug will bother you for the rest of the day.”
“Programming is the act of installing internal, pre-established reactions to external stimuli so that a person will automatically react in a predetermined manner to things like an auditory, visual or tactile signal or perform a specific set of actions according to a date and/or time.”
Source: Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
“Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.”
“Programming is usually taught by examples.”
“Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.”
“Programming language is to the computer ; speaking in tongue is to God”
“Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.”
“Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.”
“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.”
“Programming today is the opposite of diamond mining. In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt.”
“Programming will aid a person in developing their mind and will aid their meditation. I find that people who have pursued programming are doing much better in their meditation.”
“Programming your mind with positive thoughts each day will go a long way to keep you from allowing external criticism to derail your dreams.”
“Programs, after all, are concrete formulations
of abstract algorithms based on particular representations and structures
of data.”
“Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.”
“programs are scheduled interruptions of marketing bulletins.”
Source: The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
“Programs expand to fill the memory available to hold them.”
Source: Modern Operating Systems
“Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber. They don't give us information, they give us facts, factoids. You don't learn who Napoleon was and how he was motivated. You learn what year he was born, and when he died. That's useless.”
“Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.”
“Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads.”
“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
“Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right. The place to improve the world is first in one's heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”
“Programs should be about people for people for people are more important than programs.”
“Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.”
“Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.”
“Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers.”
“Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they’ll just stick in these checks without thinking about how they might slow the thing down.”
“Programs, systems and methods sit well in the ivory towers of monasteries or in the wooden arms of icons. Head knowledge comes from the pages of a theology text. But the invitation to know God - truly know Him - is always an invitation to suffer. Not to suffer alone, but to suffer with Him.”
Source: When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty
“Progresismo = eugenesia: Las economías de planificación centralizada tientan el control de la población.”
Source: Thoughts in the Ether: Pensamientos en el Éter
“Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion.”
“Progress and accomplishment with anything and everything depend on how much quality one brings to the show. What makes for quality, if one breaks it down, is spectrum and depth of virtue.”
“Progress
And again my inmost life rushes louder,
as if it moved now between steeper banks.
Objects become ever more related to me,
and all pictures ever more perused.
I feel myself more trusting in the nameless:
with my senses, as with birds, I reach
into the windy heavens from the oak,
and into the small ponds' broken-off day
my feeling sinks, as if it stood on fishes.
(Fortschritt
Und wieder rauscht mein tiefes Leben lauter,
als ob es jetzt in breitern Ufern ginge.
Immer verwandter werden mir die Dinge
und alle Bilder immer angeschauter.
Dem Namenlosen fühl ich mich vertrauter:
Mit meinen Sinnen, wie mit Vögeln, reiche
ich in die windigen Himmel aus der Eiche,
und in den abgebrochnen Tag der Teiche
sinkt, wie auf Fischen stehend, mein Gefühl.)”
Source: The Book of Images
“Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things.”
Source: Pulling Your Own Strings
“Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.”
“Progress and innovation happen when you set unrealistic goals.”
“Progress and motion are not synonymous.”
“Progress and partisanism don't go together.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Progress and partisanism don't go together,
Dollarism and sustainability don't go together.
Undisparity and materialism don't go together,
Secularism and superstition don't go together.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.”
Source: A Collection of Essays
“Progress and security can never go hand in hand.”
Source: The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth
“Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.”
Source: Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits
“Progress begins when you liberate your mind from the shackles of your ingrained tendencies of authoritarianism – the tendencies of greed – the tendencies of hatred, rage and lust.”
Source: Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
“Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.”
“Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.”
“Progress can be slow and gradual. Continue putting in effort with patience, enthusiasm and faith.”
“Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.”
“Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.”