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“Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge down in plans.”

Writing Plans Team Method Programming Software Engineering Agility Tacit

Author:Barry Boehm

“I look forward to beginning a relationship with Al Jazeera America, which has made a commitment to producing quality programming and pursuing underreported stories.”

Looks Made Stories America Quality Commitment Programming Als

Author:Soledad O'Brien

“I really wanted to believe that there were these magic celestial bodies that would direct my life, tell me what to do, and it turns out it's not stars, it's some bits of screwy DNA. I'm just meat with faulty programming.”

Believe Body Wanted Turns Stars Bits Magic Direct Meat Programming Dna Celestial Celestial Bodies

Book:Zoo City

Source: Zoo City

“The data shows pretty clearly that how voters watch video programming is dramatically changing and reinforces the need for political campaigns to better match their communications outreach efforts to the voters’ changing media habits.”

Needs Shows Political Effort Watches Media Communication Habit Campaigns Video Data Programming Voters Political Campaign Outreach

Author:Neil Newhouse

“The ALGOL compiler was probably one of the nicest pieces of code to come out at that time. I spent hours trying to fix and change the compiler. Working with it so closely affected the way I think about programming and had a profound influence on my style.”

Thinking Way Trying Hours Pieces Influence Style Profound Code Programming Affected

Author:Gary Kildall

“Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles... They all sounded to me like extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly.”

Mind Lasts Talking Principles Written Week Listening Code Programming

Author:Joel Spolsky

“Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.”

Function Structure Crafts Data Programming Requirements Data Structures Factoring

Author:Douglas Crockford

“JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.”

World Language Programming Misunderstood Programming Languages Javascript

Author:Douglas Crockford

“You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming.”

Believe Self Currents Accomplish Programming Believe In Yourself Believe In You Love Respect Restructuring

Author:Marshall Sylver

“Self-programming, what you believe and affirm about yourself, is the basis of who you are.”

Believe Self Bases Who You Are Programming About Yourself

Author:Marshall Sylver

“In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you.”

Programming Specifications

Book:Software Testing Techniques

Source: Software Testing Techniques

“Every reader should ask himself periodically “Toward what end, toward what end?”—but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.”

Should Ends Philosophy Asks Fun Reader Programming Bittersweet Constipation

Author:Alan Perlis

“Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident. If we want our young women to retain these traits into adulthood, a great option is to expose them to computer programming in their youth.”

Ifs Want Feels Kids Young Creative Youth Computer Code Programming Traits Adulthood Young Women Empowered Computer Programming

Author:Susan Wojcicki

“I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining”

Language Support Just One Programming Paradigm

Author:Bjarne Stroustrup

“Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.”

Ifs Wells Self Structure Chosen Data Organized Programming Evident Algorithms Data Structures

Author:Rob Pike

“Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do everything.' But it's just plain impossible to design a perfect language, because there are two ways to look at a language. One way is by looking at what can be done with that language. The other is by looking at how we feel using that language-how we feel while programming.”

Way Want Feels Looks Two Done Able Language Can Do Perfect Impossible Design One Way Designer Programming Two Ways

Author:Yukihiro Matsumoto

“I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say Yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that. I'll just restart Apache every 10 requests.”

Should Real Together Moving Memories Yeah Programming Request Programmers

Author:Rasmus Lerdorf

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

People Programming

Author:Rasmus Lerdorf

“I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.”

Problem Hate Programming Problem Solving

Author:Rasmus Lerdorf

“The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Embryos turn into babies; buds turn into blossoms; acorns turn into oak trees. The same programming that exists in them exists in each of us - to manifest our highest potential. What is the difference between those things and us? That we can say no...So today, say yes.”

Inspirational Today Turns Differences Tree Baby Highest Programming Manifest Bud Oaks Embryos Acorns Oak Tree

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious... Patients are people who have had too much programming - so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves.”

People Self Lost Too Much Awareness Self Awareness Patient Programming Unconscious Inner Self Rapport

Author:Milton H. Erickson

“In recent years we've seen an explosion of creative programming, and I think it represents a third golden age of television because the creators have more control over the story. The audience doesn't care about the platform. They care about the content.”

Thinking Years Stories Wisdom Care Age Audience Creative Television Thirds Creator Golden Programming Platforms Explosions Golden Age

Author:Kevin Spacey

“Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.”

Men Giving Teach Computer Program Lifetime Programming Computer Programming

Author:Muhammad Waseem

“The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.”

Ifs Social Brain Responsibility Program Machines Blind Complexes Accidents Sensitive Programming Psychedelic

Author:Timothy Leary

“The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.”

Thinking Kind Ideas Facts Work Math Programming Symbolic

Author:Stephen Wolfram

“I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end".”

Ends Might Century Computer Apples Programming Ads Macintosh Macintosh Computers

Author:Douglas Adams

“Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.”

Comfort Explanation Programming Software Engineers Arbitrary Amusing Software Engineering Capricious Programming Funny

Author:Fred Brooks

“Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.”

Stills Hours News Depth Journalism Analysis Programming Outlets Frontline Pbs Investigative Journalism

Author:Gwen Ifill

“A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.”

Persons Ideas Science Design Scientist Originals Programming Engineering Engineers Brilliant Ideas Original Ideas Civil Engineer Civil Engineering Prima Donnas Engineering Inspirational Scientists And Engineers

Author:Freeman Dyson

“Apple likes me, but they strongly prefer my money.”

Likes Apples Programming

Author:Tom Anderson

“For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.”

Action Social Equal Opposites Reactions Programming Engineering

Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

“I tell people to start implementing when they are pretty sure there aren't more important stories out there. An iteration's worth of data is worth months of speculation.”

People Important Stories Months Data Programming Speculation Implementing

Author:Kent Beck

“Responsible Development is the style of development I aspire to now. It can be summarized by answering the question, How would I develop if it were my money? I'm amazed how many theoretical arguments evaporate when faced with this question.”

Ifs Style Development Argument Responsible Programming Aspire Amazed Theoretical

Author:Kent Beck

“Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These lead me to pairing, test-first, incremental design, continuous integration and so on because they support the values.”

Firsts Different Values Responsibility Practice Support Share Honesty Design Development Roots Tests Responsible Programming Accountability Integration Transparency Leading Me

Author:Kent Beck

“I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies!”

Mean Source Code Programming Seventies Files Quaint

Author:Kent Beck

“Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.”

Responsibility Programming Testing Slacker

Author:Kent Beck

“Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.”

Intelligent Invention Programming Stumbling

Author:Amar Bose

“If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person who is doing it!”

Ifs Thinking Persons Impossible Programming

Author:Amar Bose

“I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?”

Trying Experiments Programming Temper Doubtful Flamingos

Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“I believe any malevolent supercivilisation would have rapidly self-destructed as we may be in the process of doing ourselves. If we do have contact, physical contact with aliens, I think it will be benign.”

Ifs Thinking Believe May Self I Believe Process Contact Aliens Programming Benign

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.”

Important Technology Communication Programming Horizon Technological Communication Technology No Communication

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“If we can't program it, we can't understand it.”

Ifs Program Programming

Author:David Deutsch

“If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.”

Ifs Want Should Waste Programming Introducing Bugs Programmers Debugging

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“Programming in Basic causes brain damage.”

Causes Brain Damage Programming

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“Beauty is our business.”

Programming

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“Write a paper promising salvation, make it a "structured" something or a "virtual" something, or "abstract," "distributed" or "higher-order" or "applicative" and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult.”

Writing Certain Order Higher Paper Salvation Abstract Programming Cult

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist.”

Needs Waste Computer Scientist My Time Programming Wasting My Time

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“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.”

Source: Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective

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