#programming

It is far easier to design a class to be thread-safe than to retrofit it for thread safety later. ↗

— Brian Goetz

#java #programming #design

Truth can only be found in one place: the code. ↗

— Robert C. Martin

#software-craftmanship #software-design #software-engineering #design

As Lynn writes: "What angers me is the loss of control. At any moment someone could come to me, be dressed the right way and use the right code, and I no longer have free will. I will do anything that person requests. I hate them for that. Nothing else is as bad as knowi that I am always out of control; knowing that I am still a laboratory experiment, a puppet whose strings are hidden from ever but my handlers, and I don't yet know how to break free. p216

— Lynn Hersha

#control #free-will #government-abuse #manipulation #military

The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. ↗

— C.A.R. Hoare

#programming #science

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

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#before #college #exercises #games #ourselves

I feel like there is just as much violent programming in other countries and there is not the same incidence of factors. I think there are other factors contributing to violence in this country and not the media. ↗

— Sara Gilbert

#countries #country #factors #feel #i

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers. ↗

— Dave Winer

#i #pcs #programming #started #were

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general. ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

#fact #general #i #i think #idea

The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content. ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

#both #content #deal #expressions #functions