Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" All things change, but we always have to think: what are we leaving behind? "

Related Quotes:

" It has occurred to me that if people really knew how software got written, I'm not sure they'd give their money to a bank or get on an airplane ever again. "

" When I am writing, and occasionally achieve single focus and presence, I finally feel that is where I'm supposed to be. Everything else is kind of anxiety. "

" After we have put our intimate secrets and credit card numbers online, what can prevent us from putting our elections there as well? "

" Y2K has challenged a belief in digital technology that has been almost religious. "

" I don't like the idea that Facebook controls how people express themselves and changes it periodically according to whatever algorithms they use to figure out what they should do or the whim of some programmer or some CEO. That bothers me a great deal. "

" Even simple fixes can bring the whole system down. "

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

" With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounded conversation. And writing is not bounded. That's what's hard about it. "

" Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity. "

" With every advance, you have to look over your shoulder and know what you're giving up - look over your shoulder and look at what falls away. "

" Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code. "

" I like mysteries. "

" I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism. "

" I hate the new word processors that want to tell you, as you're typing, that you made a mistake. I have to turn off all that crap. It's like, shut up - I'm thinking now. I will worry about that sort of error later. I'm a human being. I can still read this, even though it's wrong. You stupid machine, the fact that you can't is irrelevant to me. "

" Reading code is like reading all things written: You have to scribble, make a mess, remind yourself that the work comes to you through trial and error and revision. "

" With all the attention given to the personal computer, it's hard to remember that other companion machine in the room - the printer. "

" It is deep in our nature to make tools. "

" UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system. "

" Productivity has always been the justification for the prepackaging of programming knowledge. But it is worth asking about the sort of productivity gains that come from the simplifications of click-and-drag. "

" There's some intimacy in reading, some thoughtfulness that doesn't exist in machine experiences. "

" The ability to 'multitask,' to switch rapidly among many competing focuses of attention, has become the hallmark of a successful citizen of the 21st century. "

" Genetics is where we come from. It's deeply natural to want to know. "

" It is one thing for an artist to experiment on a canvas, but it's entirely different to experiment on a living creature. "

" I'm a dark thoughts writer. "

" It's possible to let technology absorb what we know and then re-express it in intricate mechanisms - parts and circuit boards and software objects - mechanisms we can use but do not understand in crucial ways. This not-knowing is fine while everything works as we expected. "

" Programmers seem to be changing the world. It would be a relief, for them and for all of us, if they knew something about it. "

" I am not intimidated by puerile boys acting like pre-teens. "

" What I hope is that those with the knowledge of the humanities break into the closed society where code gets written: invade it. "

" The questions I am often asked about my career tend to concentrate not on how one learns to code but how a woman does. "

" We don't have to live up to our computer. "