In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

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.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.

I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.

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

It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming.

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

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.

I skip through the programming to watch the commercials.

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.

Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.

Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.