#programming

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#better #branches #difficult #had #mathematicians

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming. ↗

— Marc Maron

#comedians #create #created #demand #easy

Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#because #comfort #comfort zone #day-to-day #giving

Giving consumers the choice of having it all in one big bite means different viewers are in many different places in the book, making it hard to discuss without spoiling the plot. The intervals between first-run programming provide a space for communion and that tantalizing sense of anticipation. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#between #big #bite #book #choice

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

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul. ↗

— John Carmack

#low-level #programmer #programming #soul

The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet. ↗

— Randy Jackson

#because #being #bores #drive #else

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#based #bass #definitely #drum #especially

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#irrelevant #language #level #low #programming

If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind. ↗

— Émilie Du Châtelet

#engineering #math #passonate-minds #rights #science