Program Quotes

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. (Robert A. Heinlein)
57: It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa. View quote
Alan Perlis
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. View quote
Milton Friedman
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. View quote
Alan Perlis
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. View quote
Niklaus Wirth
The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you. View quote
Ken Thompson
It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development. View quote
Rita Levi-Montalcini
I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even thought the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world. View quote
George Foreman
In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program... View quote
Poul Anderson
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. View quote
John Searle
When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free." (Linus Torvalds)
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. View quote
Isaac Asimov
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: Your tax dollar will go farther. View quote
Wernher von Braun
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. View quote
Alan Perlis
Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. View quote
Alan Perlis
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program you have to be for something. Otherwise, you will never get anywhere. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, "Ugh" ..." View quote
Louis C.K.
...they want the federal government controlling Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program. View quote
George W. Bush
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living. (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new...program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was. View quote
Art Buchwald
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up. View quote
Alan Perlis
Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice. View quote
Jack Osbourne