Bjarke Ingels Quotes

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

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.

We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better.

Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

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

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

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.

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.

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

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

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

I don't program, so I don't belong in Silicon Valley. If I did belong in Silicon Valley, I'd be there creating a revolutionary compression algorithm for billions of dollars.

I didn't do programming language stuff in college at all.

Perl programming is an *empirical* science!

When you learn to code, it opens up for you to learn many other things.

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

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages.

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.

Anytime you want to hear about graph partitioning, I will be glad to tell you what I know about graph partitioning. It remains a standard problem. I think it's an interesting problem, because it shows up in a variety of guises in real life.

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

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

Computer programming is pretty much guaranteed income. I'm good at it, and I like it.

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.