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Program Quotes

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. Douglas Adams
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. John Carmack
Vernor Vinge quote: "Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a..."
Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle. Vernor Vinge
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. Robert M. Pirsig
Hal Abelson quote: "Programs must be written for people to read, and only..."
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. Hal Abelson
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. Edsger Dijkstra
Edsger Dijkstra quote: "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but..."
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! Edsger Dijkstra
Niklaus Wirth quote: "Programming is usually taught by examples."
Programming is usually taught by examples. Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus Wirth quote: "Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps."
Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps. Niklaus Wirth
Craig Bruce quote: "'Programming' is a four-letter word."
'Programming' is a four-letter word. Craig Bruce
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen. Dick Armey
But some people will say you just did these programs. Well, yes, the programs are important and I'm proud of the programs, but mostly I'm proud of the way the San Francisco Symphony plays these programs. Michael Tilson Thomas
When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs are on a path of fiscal unsustainability. Marco Rubio
A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen. Paul Graham
At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall. Peter Maxwell Davies

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