Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I… — Bruce Boxleitner Copy Share Image
There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding… — Leslie Lamport Copy Share Image
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success. — Richard R. Nelson Copy Share Image
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. — Robert Sewell Copy Share Image
“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. — Tom Van Vleck Copy Share Image
When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer - in any language - would reach the same standard… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
There are two types of computer languages; those that people hate and those that nobody uses. — John Ousterhout Copy Share Image
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today:… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for… — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being… — John Backus Copy Share Image
One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself. — Amari Cooper Copy Share Image
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in. — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible]. — Tom Duff Copy Share Image
The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes… — Hayley Mills Copy Share Image
It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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