Stewart Alsop Quotes

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.

I love computer programmers. They have a very beautiful definition of complexity as 'the capacity to transmit the maximum information with the minimum data'.

I am a programmer. If I write code, I don't evaluate the results by what I hope the code will be. I evaluate it by what happens when I compile it. I evaluate it by results.

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

Programming language is very specific to instructing a computer to do a particular structure of a sequence. It's the very way you tell the machine what you want it to do.

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.

Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a machine to their will. I didn't.

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

I always considered programming as being like modern-day wizardry. You could think of things in your mind and then make them happen.

C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.

Hosting various versions of my countdown program has kept me extremely busy, and I loved every minute of it.

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

Realize you won't master data structures until you are working on a real-world problem and discover that a hash is the solution to your performance woes.

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.