The Art Of Computer Programming Quotes & Sayings

Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring. — Will.i.am

I love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot. — William Monahan

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute. — Donald Ervin Knuth

The representatives of business interests are the men to start this enterprise among our people and bring them to a full realization of the very grave seriousness of this war, to make them feel that we are in this war to win, and the probability is that our entering this war is going to be the deciding factor, and that the burden of the success is going to rest upon the United States. — John J. Pershing

Election Day 2010 saw the culmination of years of aggravation and resentment toward a federal government that became disconnected and disdainful of the values and priorities of Americans. — George Allen

I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it. — Mahatma Gandhi

Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map. — Martin Rees

It's time to make important noise. — Erica Alex

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do. — Donald Knuth

I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult. — Albert Schweitzer

For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to the "art of computer programming" through his well-known books in a continuous series by this title. — Donald Knuth

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time. — Mike Thompson

If you think you're a really good programmer ... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming ... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing. — Bill Gates

You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit. — David Ryan

It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true. — Haruki Murakami

I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political. — Seamus Heaney

What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related? What is the linking thread which gathers these disparate branches into a single discipline. My answer to these questions is simple -it is the art of programming a computer. It is the art of designing efficient and elegant methods of getting a computer to solve problems, theoretical or practical, small or large, simple or complex. It is the art of translating this design into an effective and accurate computer program. — Tony Hoare

As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming. — Aaron Koblin

At least my headache was almost gone. I always deal better with emergencies when I'm not actively in pain. — Seanan McGuire

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically. — Bill Gates

That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up. — Mike Tyson

Distributed programming is the art of solving the same problem that you can solve on a single computer using multiple computers. — Mikito Takada

Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. A programmer who subconsciously views himself as an artist will enjoy what he does and will do it better. — Donald Knuth

Miss Marple always sees everything. Gardening is as good as a smoke screen, and the habit of observing birds through powerful glasses can always be turned to account. — Agatha Christie