#programming

Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#everyday #everyday life #guess #i #into

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

I've enjoyed programming on NPR, but 'we're broke' and therefore all spending must be reduced. ↗

— Jaime Herrera Buetler

#enjoyed #i #must #npr #programming

I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#because #could #deal #different #discover

The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#anything #because #best #book #layman

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