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“Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of reality, imagination spins marvelous patterns.”

Reality Happens Used Language Imagination Patterns Programming Marvelous Programming Languages Anything Is Possible Anything Can Happen

Author:August Strindberg

“My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category. Thus, I follow the literature on programming languages and the debates about programming languages primarily looking for ideas for solutions to problems my colleagues and I have encountered in real applications. Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.”

Source: The Design and Evolution of C++

“Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.”

Programming Academic Endeavour

Author:Donald Knuth

“Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied.”

Night Periods Programming Timeless Dreamtime

Author:Stewart Brand

“If you've got a restaurant, you definitely want the line to be out the door the first night, but you're more interested in people continuing to come to the restaurant. And that's their outlook, a little bit. I think it allows for more creativity, in the process. It allows people to make interesting programming that maybe wouldn't have a place on broadcast networks, if you were just counting people.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Firsts Littles Night Bits Process Lines Interesting Creativity Doors Little Bit Restaurants Programming Continuing Outlook Counting

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“When our goals are clearly defined and intelligently set, you have, in essence, taken a major step toward programming your left brain. That frees your right brain to be its creative best.”

Left Goal Brain Steps Creative Taken Majors Essence Defined Programming Left Brain

Book:Over the Top

Source: Over the Top

“On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

“A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.”

Thinking Language Influence Habit Tools Profound Programming Computer Programming Programming Languages

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.”

Helping Focus Decided Originals Strategy Expensive Programming Encores

Author:Chris Albrecht

“Throughout my career, I've realized that there are a lot of great opportunities out there to be associated with programming. It may have started elsewhere, as Crimson Petal did in the UK. So, our main strategy for Encore is to go through those types of partnership acquisitions.”

May Opportunity Careers Type Strategy Programming Elsewhere Partnership Acquisition Petals Great Opportunity Crimson Encores

Author:Chris Albrecht

“I think we're going to transition with our comedy programming, trying to broaden the audience and broaden what the network does. Those Thursday comedies, which the critics love and we love, tend to be a bit more narrow than we'd ultimately like, as we go forward.”

Thinking Trying Doe Bits Audience Comedy Critics Programming Transition Thursday

Author:Robert Greenblatt

“I try to watch as many movies as possible within a group setting instead of just in front of my laptop. It's better to watch something and chat about it with your programming peers afterward.”

Trying Watches Groups Fronts Setting Settings Programming Peers Laptops

Author:Tim League

“I started working at Bravo in 2005, when I was offered a job by Lauren Zalaznick, the network's chairman. She encouraged me to start a blog. I wrote behind-the-scenes gossip about 'Battle of the Network Reality Stars,' the first show I took on as head of current programming.”

Firsts Shows Reality Jobs Stars Behinds Scene Battle Currents Programming Gossip Blogs Chairman Behind The Scenes Lauren Bravo

Author:Andy Cohen

“In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.”

Art Made Important Ends Computer Trade Budgets Programming The End Of The Day Versus Athletics Computer Programming Trade Offs

Author:Bill Gates

“Amazon has included me in an opportunity to provide top-shelf television-style programming live on the world's computer screens. To hold forth with the industry's very best actors, directors, musicians, authors - I'm thrilled to be on the cutting edge of this.”

World Actors Opportunity Cutting Style Television Industry Directors Computer Musician Edges Screens Programming Shelves Amazon Cutting Edge Computer Screen

Author:Bill Maher

“I think there's a lot of really good programming on television. What I've noticed, through the years of being a professional writer, is the watering down process of story. You have to market to the masses and not offend anybody.”

Thinking Years Stories Process Television Mass Programming Through The Years

Author:Lauren Iungerich

“Total victory is the only acceptable goal in a mind-control war because humanity is diminished so long as a single mind remains trapped in superstition [supernatural religion] by programming or choice.”

Mind Long War Humanity Choices Goal Victory Remains Programming Acceptable Superstitions Trapped Mind Control

Author:Howard Thompson

“There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program”

Fields Program Programming Despicable

Book:Techniques of program structure and design

Source: Techniques of program structure and design

“There aren't enough people in the media creation space. There aren't enough people making premium quality programming. That's how we change the narrative. Because there is a lot of bad African programming out there, and it is not helping matters.”

People Matter Enough Helping Space Quality Media Creation Narrative Programming Premium

Author:Mo Abudu

“There's a really rough and relatively consistent hierarchy of concerns. My musical interests come first and principally my fascination with how notes and rhythms interlock. Then comes the technical side like programming, instruments and designing instruments. Next is production and mixing and beyond that I start to care less.”

Firsts Care Next Sides Interest Design Concern Instruments Notes Musical Productions Rhythm Programming Consistent Rough Hierarchy Fascination Mixing

Author:Squarepusher

“I was really looking at computers as a way to understand the mind. But at M.I.T., my mind was blown by having a whole computer to yourself as long as you liked.I felt a surge of intellectual power through access to this computer, and I started thinking about what this could mean for kids and the way they learn. That's when we developed the computer programming language for kids, Logo.”

Thinking Way Mind Mean Long Whole Kids Language Felt Computer Intellectual Access Programming Computer Programming Programming Languages Logos

Author:Seymour Papert

“We often treat children as if they're not very competent to do anything on their own. So we make them stop learning in a natural way - by exploring. Logo [the computer programming language ] allows them to find their way around the computer, as they would find their way around the house, uncontaminated by the bureaucracies of schools.”

Ifs Way Children School House Language Natural Computer Treats Programming Exploring Bureaucracy Competent Computer Programming Programming Languages Logos

Author:Seymour Papert

“Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.”

Firsts Kind First Time Yeah Lifetime Programming Impressed

Author:Beau Bridges

“I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.”

School Taught College Computer High School Stuck Programming Computer Science Taught Us Elementary School

Author:Masi Oka

“Well there's a lot of machines making music today too so you should expect perfection from them! Other than that it's humans programming it which is actually why i still like it. But yeah, that sounds about right. Now what I've got to do is I've got to stop expecting it of myself.”

Should Humans Wells Stills Today Sound Right Now Perfection Machines Yeah Programming Expecting

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I don`t control the schedule of the networks. We have three of our debates that are on network television, and those are on Saturday nights. We have three other debates that are during the week. And unfortunately, broadcast network programming is less flexible than cable network programming.”

Night Three Week Television Debate Programming Schedules Saturday Flexible Cables Saturday Night

Author:Hillary Clinton

“The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on.”

Jobs Memories Chance Computer Programming Floating Feats

Author:Bill Gates

“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.”

Form Term Pieces Written Objects Approach Tricks Programming Software Components Rewriting

Author:Bill Gates

“In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.”

Knows Able Models Performances Impact Programming Affected Making Changes

Author:Bill Gates

“It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.”

Ifs Want Years Has Beens Said Wanted Three Next Given Computer Built Customers Programming Spokes Three Years They Said

Author:Steve Jobs

“In Europe, radio stations are owned by a variety of different entities, so there is less uniformity on radio programming and more opportunity for artists to get radio play and break overseas.”

Different Play Artist Opportunity Break Europe Radio Variety Programming Stations Entity Uniformity Radio Stations Radio Plays

Author:Wendy Starland

“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”

“I'm seeing too many kids where they get fixated on their own autism. I'd rather have them get fixated that they like programming computers or they like art or they want to sing in the church choir or they want to train dogs, you know, something that they can turn into a career.”

Knows Want Art Kids Turns Church Careers Seeing Dog Computer Train Programming Autism Choir Church Choir

Author:Temple Grandin

“Instead of three networks you have three hundred or three thousand. Audiences are inundated with programming, and that sometimes gives them a sense of petulant entitlement.”

Giving Sometimes Three Audience Thousand Hundred Programming Entitlement

Author:George Meyer

“If you've got a stick hitting a drum and you're programming it on a computer, it's so much more interesting than a sample playing back - it's something in the air, that's the magical ingredient.”

Ifs Interesting Air Computer Sticks Programming Ingredients Hitting Sample

Author:Aphex Twin

“I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 18 hours programming 16 bars of music.”

Want Doe Guy Hours Fronts Computer Bars Programming This Guy That Guy

Author:Keith Fullerton Whitman

“I was not in a good space in my life, emotionally particularly, so I needed to do something to recharge my batteries emotionally and musically. I took a break and I learnt software and programming a little bit, and that's how I designed my live machine, which I've been using for years.”

Years Littles Bits Space Break Needed Little Bit Machines Programming Software Batteries

Author:Jamie Lidell

“In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is.”

Ifs Ideas Matter Problem Technology Computer Solutions Solve Customers Meaningful Programming Software Requirements Shifting Computer Programming Measure Of Success Computer Software

Author:Jeff Atwood

“After you finish the first 90% of a project, you have to finish the other 90%.”

Firsts Projects Programming

Author:Michael Abrash

“Before Ruby on Rails, web programming required a lot of verbiage, steps and time. Now, web designers and software engineers can develop a website much faster and more simply, enabling them to be more productive and effective in their work.”

Steps Faster Designer Programming Productive Software Engineers Website Rail Enabling Rubies

Author:Bruce Perens

“If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We must somehow find a way to make our designs resilient to such changes and protect them from rotting.”

Ifs Way Learning Failing Design Protect Rain Constant Faults Simplicity Dues Programming Requirements Resilient Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language Rotting

Author:Robert Cecil Martin

“We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.”

Computer Programming Users Programmers Software Engineering Optimization

Author:Jeff Atwood

“Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.”

Littles Real Girl Dangerous Programming Ads Components Real Beauty Real Women

Author:Rashida Jones

“The press is supposed to equip people to act as citizens and not just consumers of programming that happens to be news.”

People Happens Citizens News Presses Consumers Programming

Author:David Folkenflik

“It feels like it is a daily work and an ongoing task to undo all of the f - - g programming that I have had all my life about who I am supposed to be and how I'm supposed to look and that I'm supposed to win. It's a daily deconstruction of all that bullshit.”

Feels Looks Winning Tasks Who I Am Supposed To Be Programming Bullshit Ongoing Deconstruction Daily Work

Author:Amanda Palmer

“By becoming mindful of our cultural programming, we can step out of it.”

Steps Becoming Programming

Author:Christiane Northrup

“To teach is to learn twice.”

Life Inspirational Education Teach Learning Teacher Teaching Appreciation Programming

Book:Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert

Source: Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert

“I could hire every producer in Hollywood - 2,000 producers, let's say - and they couldn't come up with all the soap operas, in season and out of season, that NFL programming gives television.”

Giving Television Hollywood Seasons Come Up Producers Nfl Programming Opera Soap Soap Operas

Author:Jerry Jones

“Programming is all about numbers.”

Numbers Programming

Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion.”

Used Enemy Intellectual Humorous Phones Permanent Programming Telephones Oblivion Ink Wire Scholarship Answering Machines

Book:An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas

Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas

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