Computer language Quotes

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

— Alan Kay

Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.

— Khalil Gibran

95% on content and the computer language remains the same.

— Steve McConnell

The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

— Tony Hoare

Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.

— Albert Schweitzer

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

— Gore Vidal

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

— Alan Kay

We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.

— Victor Hugo

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.

— Richard E. Pattis

A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.

— Darwin D. Martin

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

— Stan Kelly-Bootle

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

— Donald Knuth

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

— Alan Kay

Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.

— Tom DeMarco

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

— Alan Perlis

The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are…

— Harlan Mills

One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a…

— Cay S. Horstmann

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have…

— Bill Gates

At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of…

— Tom Gilb

If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We…

— Robert Cecil Martin

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is…

— Bill Gates

We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is…

— Frederick Lenz

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an…

— Sugata Mitra

Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in…

— Andrea diSessa

The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the…

— Paul Vixie

A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves…

— Edsger Dijkstra

In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them.…

— Robert Fano

We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every…

— Antoine Lavoisier

To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end…

— Jim Horning

When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly…

— Donald Knuth

First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform…

— Hal Abelson

Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with…

— James Lovelock

I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an…

— Alan Perlis

A class, in Java, is where we teach objects how to behave.

— Richard E. Pattis

Question authority; but, raise your hand first.

— Alan Dershowitz

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

— Vladimir Lenin

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

— David Allen

Experience comes from bad judgment.

— Mark Twain

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

— R. Buckminster Fuller