#programming

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#growing #growing up #i #i remember #just

MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming. ↗

— Brit Hume

#channel #doing #first-class #good #good people

I skip through the programming to watch the commercials. ↗

— Mel Karmazin

#i #programming #skip #through #watch

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#because #expect #fun #get #good

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#engineering #exceptional #focus #had #head

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#actually #build #computer #could #did

I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#carry #day #dollars #estimate #extent

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#sicp #imagination

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity. ↗

— John Romero

#creative #creativity #extremely #might #profession

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming. ↗

— Jim Henson

#children #days #ended #felt #kind