#programming

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? ↗

— Alan J. Perlis

#programming #sicp #science

Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine. ↗

— Ikue Mori

#drum #else #gave #i #interested

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

— Dave Winer

#i #pcs #programming #started #were

Once an object escapes, you have to assume that another class or thread may, maliciously or carelessly, misuse it. This is a compelling reason to use encapsulation: it makes it practical to analyze programs for correctness and harder to violate design constraints accidentally. ↗

— Brian Goetz

#java #programming #design

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

Whenever more than one thread accesses a given state variable, and one of them might write to it, they all must coordinate their access to it using synchronization. ↗

— Brian Goetz

#java #programming #synchronicity

Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#first time #hoping #i #impressed #into

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

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#consists #contemplation #design #new #old