“meritocracies. Computer programming didn't operate as an old-boy network,” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime. — Muhammad Waseem 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
A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits. — Edsger Dijkstra 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
I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation.… — JWoww Copy Share Image
Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if… — Bill Gates 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
It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has… — Alan Cooper 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
“Indeed, the ratio of time spent reading versus writing is well over 10 to 1. We are constantly reading old code as… — Robert C. Martin Copy Share Image
“Last year, 26 percent of Stanford’s undergraduate degrees were awarded in computer science or engineering, about three times as many as at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was really looking at computers as a way to understand the mind. But at M.I.T., my mind was blown by having… — Seymour Papert 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
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
The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost… — John Carmack 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
“I WANT TO end this list by talking a little more about the founding of Pixar University and Elyse Klaidman’s mind-expanding drawing… — Ed Catmull 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
The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges,… — Ray Ozzie Copy Share Image
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