#programme

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#besides #characterized #heuristic #negative #positive

In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#class #daily #daily lives #expressions #hard

I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer. ↗

— Robert Patterson

#composer #computer #horn #i #i am

I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment. ↗

— David Soul

#anger #arrested #awful #begun #called

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning. ↗

— Jeane Dixon

#endowed #lives #meaning #our #our lives

Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#behalf #children #corporate #facilitate #fund

I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#director #ever #getting #i #ideas

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

#because #fellow #game #happy #i

Even the 'Today' programme involves a balance between the worthy-but-heavy items with the worthless-but-entertainingly-light ones. ↗

— Evan Davis

#between #even #involves #items #ones

I rarely come away from presenting the 'Today' programme without some sense of regret. There is always some question that I should have asked, or some point that I should have made. This is annoying but not surprising. Perfection is hard to achieve in a three-hour live programme. ↗

— Evan Davis

#always #annoying #asked #away #come