#programming

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

— Alan Perlis

#irrelevant #language #level #low #programming

The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct. ↗

— Donald E. Knuth

#programming #communication

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

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. ↗

— Stewart Alsop

#achieve #believes #defined #essentials #everything

Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore. ↗

— Maury Povich

#anything #around #been #comes #exactly

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today. ↗

— Jack Valenti

#control #dispatched #every #home #parent

I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#african-american #african-american community #being #cable #community

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen. ↗

— Paul Graham

#already #expressing #language #pen #pencil

People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#basically #believe #beyond #consider #discussing

Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything. ↗

— Anthony Michael Hall

#creates #directors #everything #more #obviously