#programming

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

— Jack Valenti

#control #dispatched #every #home #parent

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. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#any #fully #genetic #important #important point

I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch. ↗

— Burt Ward

#children #decide #having #i #like

I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#african-american #african-american community #being #cable #community

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. ↗

— Paul Graham

#already #expressing #language #pen #pencil

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. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#good #i #i am #important #important thing

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

— Donald Knuth

#everyday #everyday life #guess #i #into

I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#because #could #deal #different #discover

My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned. ↗

— David Crane

#change #design #designs #found #hardware

Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. ↗

— Paul Graham

#age