top of page
"There was something amazingly enticing about programming."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Programming quotes

"The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming."

"The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman."

"After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field."

"The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central."

"I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining."

"There was something amazingly enticing about programming."
Explore more quotes by Vinton Cerf

"There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around."

"Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time."

"First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense."

"Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them."

"In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good."

"In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology."
bottom of page