That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally… — George Boole Copy Share Image
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The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering. — William James Copy Share Image
One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a… — Verity Stob 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
Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
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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
The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the… — Harold Morowitz Copy Share Image
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please… — Jacques Barzun 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
When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is… — Amari Cooper Copy Share Image
The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are… — Hayley Mills 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
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
It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
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