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“Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.”

Way Trying Programming Explicit Implicit Fuzzy

Author:Clay Shirky

“Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.”

Years Research Programming Retarded Linux Unix

Author:Dennis Ritchie

“I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.”

People Reason Found Missing Programming Artificial Intelligence Artificial Limbs Programmers

Author:David Parnas

“With diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly.”

Running Programming Diligence

Author:Tom Duff

“Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers.”

Ifs Helping Use Answers Dangerous Activity Compare Programming Justify

Author:Martin Fowler

“Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.”

People Ordinary Delight Programming Novelty Software Design Gaudy

Author:Erik Naggum

“The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.”

Mind Faces Duty Errors Primaries Programming Exception Users Lap Programmers Cardinals Cardinal Rules

Author:Verity Stob

“Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.”

Doe Simplicity Complexity Programming Programmers

Author:Lawrence Bossidy

“Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.”

Hard Use Easy Entrepreneur Simplicity Lawyer Complexity Programming Programmers Charging

Author:Chris Sacca

“… what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like “Structured Analysis and Design”, “Software Engineering”, “Maturity Models”, “Management Information Systems”, “Integrated Project Support Environments” “Object Orientation” and “Business Process Re-engineering”.”

“When in doubt, leave it out.”

Doubt Programming When In Doubt

Author:Joshua Bloch

“A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.”

Way Ideas Programming Good Ideas Good Way

Author:Bram Cohen

“In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming as if it were a production process and measure "programmer productivity" in terms of "number of lines of code produced". In so doing they book that number on the wrong side of the ledger: we should always refer to "the number of lines of code spent".”

People Ifs Should Writing Book Process Sides Term Lines Numbers Program Productions Productivity Code Programming Programmers

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.”

Want Problem Tricks Programming

Author:Bram Cohen

“Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.”

Writing Quality Written Idiot Programming

Author:Bram Cohen

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

Type Manage Programming Hierarchy

Author:Rob Pike

“Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.”

Made Hard Easy Simple Modern Complicated Complexity Programming Computing Fiddle

Author:Rob Pike

“It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today!”

Today Cost Benefits Programming Abstraction Uncommon

Author:John Carmack

“Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.”

Trying Language Programming Idiotic Idiocy

Author:Rob Pike

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

Levels Broken Programming Computing

Author:Rob Pike

“One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it!”

People Want Bigs Suffering Lessons Projects Programming Programmers

Author:John Carmack

“We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and helped burn the corpses. We don't know what causes it; we don't really know if there is only one disease. We just suffer - and keep pouring our sewage into our water supply.”

Ifs Knows Problem Suffering Causes Black Water Quality Disease Victim Programming Software Agony Plague Corpses Pouring Software Engineering Sewage

Author:Tom Van Vleck

“The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.”

Ifs Wells Might Three Dangerous Design Objects Projects Terror Reactions Combination Features Programming Appropriate Thread Invited Procedures Fleeing Interfaces Heavyweights

Book:The Art of UNIX Programming

Source: The Art of UNIX Programming

“Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything.”

Actors Opportunity Directors Originals Producers Programming Cables Satellites

Author:Anthony Michael Hall

“Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.”

Long Would Be Certain Stars Air Position Television Periods News Luxury Operations Programming Imperatives Cnn Long Periods Of Time

Author:Brit Hume

“With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.”

Language Available Programming Programming Languages

Author:Miguel de Icaza

“There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.”

Knows Way Can Do Computer Machines Infinite Programming Constructs Tire Wrong Things Exhaustion Computer Programming Loops

Author:John Maeda

“Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children.”

Thinking Children Shows America Term Diversity Programming Cartoon

Author:Alex Kingston

“I skip through the programming to watch the commercials.”

Watches Programming Skip

Author:Mel Karmazin

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