Top 205 Programming Quotes

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.

If you hear a New Order track that’s mostly electronic, it’s generally come about through one person sitting at a computer and programming it.

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining.

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

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

Programming is usually taught by examples.

Watching my little 18 month old confidently waddle around his weekend exploring the world, I realized that one of the things that’s so joyful about being around little one’s is that they haven’t absorbed all of our cultural programming yet.

Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.

Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.

Something that’s interesting with season two of ‘Total Divas,’ Fandango and I’s relationship has been on the surface level, as far as WWE programming with ‘Monday Night Raw,’ ‘Main Event,’ ‘Friday Night SmackDown.’ You see us on camera and that’s about it.

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.

Just as the cable revolution overturned broadcast, the net is destined to become the dominant mode of video, both in terms of transit and programming.

Marketing is the obverse of programming.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

The pop-star thing bores me because it’s somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don’t say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there – you’re not even a human being. You’re a puppet.

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author’s manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

No, we didn’t ‘slash’ children’s programming or eviscerate our rules by creating loopholes to allow those inclined to avoid airing any kids’ programming at all, as some have asserted.

There’s still too much filler, copycat programming that’s out there. We work so hard to pioneer new ideas, and then those ideas are just regurgitated by other networks. That’s not good for anybody, I think. That’s not good for our business. That’s not good for our audience.

Too many radio stations, all they do is syndicated programming, it’s just piped in from some satellite someplace, and they don’t have much of a connection to the community.

I love both acting and programming equally. I think it enriches me and enhances me as an artist.

Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming.

I started taking programming lessons at the age of 10.

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it’s a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

At MIT, mostly what I did was documentation. I sort of read things. Wrote some descriptions of various aspects of the file system. Did not really do very much programming at all. At least on Multics.

Oracle is my second job ever that did not involve waitressing. But I still have my waitress apron just in case this does not work out. It’s just that I fell in love with software when I was programming in college. When I was an investment banker, there were mostly mainframe companies and very few software ones.

The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly.

I started programming before even being in school.

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

Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.

To be sure, educational programming likely benefits some of the children who seek it out, particularly those whose families can’t afford the myriad options available today on cable or Netflix.

It’s very hard to explain to people who don’t program, but the object-oriented programming system made programming the Mac and iPhone so easy.

I did not grow up around computers, so technology was not a tool used every day in my household. I was drawn to computer science due to the creative nature of programming and the technology focus.

Whether your father, husband, son, or brother has been on the front lines, driving a computer or programming a tank, wielding a gun or a wrench, they are a team. No one moves, no one wins without everyone doing their job.

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you’ve already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.

I feel like reality TV has thrown a difficult wrench in the system – on the programming and making side, and on the curating side – which is that we now have a higher threshold for the salacious. We have a higher threshold, unprecedented, for fast, cheap, and out of control.

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldi’s in Queens.

Proprietary programming like news can be a great weapon.

Sports is the ultimate escape, the ultimate in reality programming. It’s true drama. You really don’t know what’s going to happen.

Society would be a lot better if people watched Hulu’s original programming and not just ‘Mozart in the Jungle,’ which everyone is watching, apparently.

It’s an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical – it is in any animal merely statistical – not deterministic.

Computer programming has always been a self-taught, maverick occupation.

I got my first computer at the age of 6. To me, it was magic. By the time I was 12, I wanted to know the secrets behind the wizardry, and that started my journey toward computer programming. This was the early 1990s, when computers weren’t built for the mass market.

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit ‘comedians’ and create very cheap television programming.

People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Our news is Fox News. It’s a cable channel and has nothing to do, frankly, with the entertainment area of the company. It’s the model of how this company was launched, and there are a lot of independent stations and Fox O&Os who have hugely successful news that our programming is the lead-in for.

We’ve all but abandoned soaps in our own culture. I lost my beloved ‘Guiding Light’ in 2009, and ‘One Life to Live’ was just the latest casualty to fall beneath the programming axes.

The brain sure as hell doesn’t work by somebody programming in rules.

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

I think my viewers want smart, honest programming. They don’t want to be told what makes them feel good.

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.