Programming Quotes

“Let's face it. We live in a command-based system, where we have been programmed since our earliest school years to become followers, not individuals. We have been conditioned to embrace teams, the herd, the masses, popular opinion -- and to reject what is different, eccentric or stands alone. We are so programmed that all it takes for any business or authority to condition our minds to follow or buy something is to simply repeat a statement more than three or four times until we repeat it ourselves and follow it as truth or the best trendiest thing. This is called "programming" -- the frequent repetition of words to condition us how to think, what to like or dislike, and who to follow.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Programming is breaking of one big impossible task into several very small possible tasks.”
― Jazzwant

“Programming, it turns out, is hard. The fundamental rules are typically simple and clear. But programs built on top of these rules tend to become complex enough to introduce their own rules and complexity. You’re building your own maze, in a way, and you might just get lost in it.”
― Marijn Haverbeke

“Software testing is a sport like hunting, it's bughunting.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Functions that create values are easier to combine in new ways than functions that directly perform side effects”
― Marijn Haverbeke

“Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it.”
― Richard P. Gabriel

“Premature optimization is the root of all evil.”
― Donald Knuth

“I always suspected that programmers became programmers because they got to play God with the little universe boxes on their desks.”
― Jeff Atwood

“Programming your mind with positive thoughts each day will go a long way to keep you from allowing external criticism to derail your dreams.”
― Ken Poirot

“Every programmer is an author.”
― Sercan Leylek

“Think like a fundamentalist, code like a hacker.”
― Erik Meijer

“Like so many things in software, MVC was invented by Smalltalkers in the seventies. Lispers probably claim they came up with it in the sixties but didn't bother writing it down.”
― Robert Nystrom, Game Programming Patterns

“With programmes such as flooding of emotions, the parts involved might not feel safe in turning the programme off. But you might be able to negotiate that they turn it down so it is barely noticeable. Or you could ask the spinner parts to spin in the opposite direction, so that they spin the effects back into the part who originally held those feelings rather than out to the rest of the system. Or you could insert a hidden drain and start draining out some of the feelings. Or you could find a way for the parts doing their jobs to implement the programme without doing harm. p126-127”
― Alison Miller, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

“We can never know how much they deserve our sympathy, but we have to give it unreservedly as they are people innately full of the divine who instead choose to behave infernally owing to poor programming.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

“One of her secret fantasies had been that, as a girl who could code, she would work in the one place where a geeky fat girl could get dates. It had not been entirely untrue. But as someone had pointed out to her in school, although the odds are good, the goods are odd.”
― Maureen F. McHugh

“If the application is event-driven, it can be decoupled into multiple self-contained components. This helps us become more scalable, because we can always add new components or remove old ones without stopping or breaking the system. If errors and failures are passed to the right component, which can handle them as notifications, the application can become more fault-tolerant or resilient. So if we build our system to be event-driven, we can more easily achieve scalability and failure tolerance, and a scalable, decoupled, and error-proof application is fast and responsive to users.”
― Nickolay Tsvetinov, Learning Reactive Programming with Java 8

“Software development is the process of creating a computer software.
It includes preparing a design, coding the program, and fixing the
bugs. The final goal of software development is to translate user
needs to software product, while continuously improving the team
and the process.”
― Paulo Caroli

“Sometimes you cannot program around stupid.”
― David Ferrell

“...I’m not saying simple code takes less time to write. You’d think it would since you end up with less total code, but a good solution isn’t an accretion of code, it’s a distillation of it.”
― Robert Nystrom

“Most non-programmers don't think of plaintext like that. To them, text files feel like filling in tax forms for an angry robotic auditor that yells at them if they forget a single semicolon.”
― Robert Nystrom, Game Programming Patterns

“I once generalized from a single data point, and I'll never do that again!”
― Carlos Bueno, The Mature Optimization Handbook

“She had a theory that the fear of getting in trouble was what made her not as good a programmer and that, in fact, it was all linked to testosterone, and that was why there were more guy programmers than women. It was a very hazy theory, and she didn't like it, but she had pretty much convinced herself it was true, although she couldn't bear to think of sharing it with anybody, because it was a lot better to think that there were social reasons why girls didn't usually become code monkeys than to think there were biological reasons.”
― Maureen F. McHugh

“On est comme des ordinateurs qu'on programme et déprogramme à volonté. Nous nous conditionnons même à nos réussites et à nos échecs futurs.”
― Bernard Werber, L'ultime secret

“Don't get distracted by the noise.”
― Anonymous

“The approach shown... is a common pattern for testing exception-throwing behavior with JUnit.

@Test 
public void missingValueRaisesException() throws Exception {
 try {
 new Template("${foo}").evaluate();
 fail("evaluate() should throw an exception if "
 + "a variable was left without a value!");
 } catch (MissingValueException expected) {
 }
}

”
― Lasse Koskela, Test Driven: Practical TDD and Acceptance TDD for Java Developers

“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.”
― Alan J. Perlis, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

“A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming.”
― Stephen Baxter, Ultima

“You haven't created a new body for me. I'm electricity, or light, or whatever bullshit you said I am. Just some complicated programming.”
― Brad McKinniss, Beast Machine

“The programming of the consciousness is based upon what is accepted or believed.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game

“Database means a tables collected different information, so one site is a result of a collected tables????”
― Deyth Banger