Terry Jones Quotes

I am a programmer.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

I was a programmer.

[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but with television you get to take your time and just take it episode by episode and discover new things.

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.

What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually.

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

What is nice about doing a long-running show is finding a language that gives it some depth.

Yeah, I love Ethereum. I love coding.

Software is the language of automation.

People love storylines. They love them because at some point, the talent will get people emotionally invested.

I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

Details are the Life of Prose.

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.

Stories are the reproductive organs of language.

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.

You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.