The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there. — Gordon Bell Copy Share Image
I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. — Robert Coveyou Copy Share Image
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state. — John Ousterhout Copy Share Image
It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our… — Keith Braithwaite Copy Share Image
I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of… — Mark Gibbs Copy Share Image
Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. — Robert Sewell Copy Share Image
More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including… — William Wulf 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
