Quotes by Programming I started programming Apples in seventh grade. Steve Jurvetson seventhstartedprogrammingapples The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content. Stephen Wolfram anythingupprogrammingimportant I affirmatively have watched WWE programming my whole entire life! Stephanie McMahon wweprogrammingwholelife I ran development and programming at Disney TV animation. We did a lot of cartoons. Roy Price cartoonsdidprogrammingdevelopment The idea that content is king has long rested on the notion that distribution - in whatever form it takes - is a low-margin commodity, and the biggest share of profits flows to the creators of original programming, who can sell to the highest bidder. James B. Stewart kingwhateverprogramminglong MTV refers to its audience as 'the demo.' Being 'in the demo' means being in the demographic sweet spot that advertisers want their programming to hit, which is ideally between 18 and 24. John Seabrook beingprogrammingwantsweet When you take the individual out of the equation, then you're making programming based on some marketer's idea of what will sell, and not based on the idea of what an individual would like. John Seabrook willlikeyouprogramming Marketing is the obverse of programming. John McAfee programmingmarketing HBO is the original subscription video-on-demand company. We were repurposing first-run movies, and then we added original programming. Jeff Bewkes originalmoviesprogrammingcompany There was something amazingly enticing about programming. Vint Cerf amazingaboutsomethingprogramming Youku Tudou is a hybrid, like combining Netflix and YouTube. Like Netflix, with Youku, which launched in 2005, we syndicate a library of longform content and create original content. The Tudou model started with user-generated content but is increasingly becoming about partner-generated programming. Victor Koo youtubeprogramminglibrarynetflix Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. Linus Torvalds expectgoodprogrammingfun Coming from a programming background, I have a good sense of what's feasible and what's not feasible in a game. Masi Oka backgroundgamegoodprogramming With 'Scratch,' you create computer programs by snapping together graphical programming blocks, much like LEGO bricks, without any of the obscure syntax and punctuation of traditional programming languages. After creating an interactive 'Scratch' project, you can share it on the 'Scratch' website, just as you would share videos on YouTube. Mitchel Resnick youtubeyouprogrammingtogether The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming. Marc Maron createprogrammingeasytelevision There were no PCs when I started programming on computers. Dave Winer startedcomputerswereprogramming ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments. Drew Curtis programmingproblemimpossiblesports 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. Dennis Ritchie systemsomethingsprogramming 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. David Shuster connectionsomeprogrammingcommunity A playlist can be very versatile, almost like a programming language. Daniel Ek almostlikeprogramminglanguage«1234567891011»
