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Charles Petzold Quotes

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I started out with machine code and assembly language  (Charles Petzold Quotes) Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn’t have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carrying a cargo of zeros and ones. Metaphors and similes are wonderful literary devices but they do nothing but obscure the beauty of technology  (Charles Petzold Quotes) Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display is yours - but not always  (Charles Petzold Quotes) I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don’t pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works  (Charles Petzold Quotes) All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one instrument at a time.  (Charles Petzold Quotes) I really liked figuring things out on my own. Early on in the development of a new version of Windows, I would explore it, I would try out various things, I would see what worked, I would see what didn’t work.  (Charles Petzold Quotes) You probably don’t have much of a choice  (Charles Petzold Quotes) Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick  (Charles Petzold Quotes) Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven  (Charles Petzold Quotes)