#programming

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#irrelevant #language #level #low #programming

If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind. ↗

— Émilie Du Châtelet

#engineering #math #passonate-minds #rights #science

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? ↗

— Alan J. Perlis

#programming #sicp #science

You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#next #programming #love

It doesn't matter if you are not 'good' at creative activity. You do not have to be 'good' at pushups before they strengthen your arms. You have to do them to get them to strengthen your arms, and so it is with creative activities: you have to do them to exercise those parts of your brain. Those creative activities that easily integrate with daily life are best because, as with atheltic exercise programs, thoses that intrude on busy schedule are not likely to get done ↗

— Neil Kirby

#business

I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#hero #i #love #mole #programming

It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#change #interrupt #massive #old #pattern

Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine. ↗

— Ikue Mori

#drum #else #gave #i #interested

when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create. ↗

— Why The Lucky Stiff

#programming #inspirational

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass. ↗

— Larry Wall

#programming #ux #wayfinding #architecture