#programming

My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned. ↗

— David Crane

#change #design #designs #found #hardware

Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. ↗

— Paul Graham

#age

We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce that designs that assemble long lists of features. ↗

— Douglas Crockford

#philosophy #programming #simplicity #software-development #design

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#behaviour #belief-systems #child-development #conditioning #education-system

To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality. ↗

— Cliff Shaw

#appear #capable #communication #coordination #devise

Talk is cheap. Show me the code. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#linux #programming #humor

Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you *play* with them. They are so wonderful. You have these switches - if it's an even number you do this, if it's an odd number you do that - and pretty soon you can do more and more elaborate things if you are clever enough, on one machine. After a while the whole system broke down. Frankel wasn't paying any attention; he wasn't supervising anybody. The system was going very, very slowly - while he was sitting in a room figuring out how to make one tabulator automatically print arc-tangent X, and then it would start and it would print columns and then bitsi, bitsi, bitsi, and calculate the arc-tangent automatically by integrating as it went along and make a whole table in one operation. Absolutely useless. We *had* tables of arc-tangents. But if you've ever worked with computers, you understand the disease - the *delight* in being able to see how much you can do. But he got the disease for the first time, the poor fellow who invented the thing. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#humor #programming #humor

Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#broadcasts #cable #create #culturally #family

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field. ↗

— W. Richard Stevens

#field #graduating #i #into #programming

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#flaws #however #java #language #limitations