15 private quotes tagged programming

“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”

“Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”— Linus Torvalds

“Learning to program teaches you how to think. Computer science is a liberal art.”— Steve Jobs

“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”— Edsger Dijkstra

“[Lisp is the] greatest single programming language ever designed.”— Alan Kay

Source:http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2003/04/03/alan_kay.html

“An API is like a joke, if you have to explain it it's not that good.”— @francesc

Source:https://twitter.com/francesc/status/508066994491387904

“These are thoughts that we can't think.”— Bret Victor

Context:On why creators need a better, more immediate connection to their media.

Source:http://vimeo.com/36579366#t=9m12s

“If there is any delay in that feedback loop between thinking of something and seeing it and building on it, then there is this whole world of ideas which will never be.”— Bret Victor

Source:http://vimeo.com/36579366#t=8m58s

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”— Bjarne Stroustrup

“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”— Brian Kernighan

“Ideas are very important to me.”— Bret Victor

Context:His thoughts on the importance of ideas (hear more from the source link).

Source:http://vimeo.com/36579366#t=9m32s

“The secret to building large apps is never build large apps. Break your applications into small pieces. Then, assemble those testable, bite-sized pieces into your big application.”— Justin Meyer

“Don't start with a class. Start with a protocol.”— Dave Abrahams

Source:WWDC 2015, Session 408, 14:40

“Maybe the best programmers aren't those who spectacularly solve crazy problems, but those who don't create them, which is much more silent.”— Lena Herrmann

Source:https://twitter.com/kilaulena/status/111476233220530176

“There is the truth; everything else is a cache.”