A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic… — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
“Distributed programming is the art of solving the same problem that you can solve on a single computer using multiple computers.” — Mikito Takada Copy Share Image
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think It's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform. — Timothee Besset Copy Share Image
“The French Code for cheese is ALIVE. The American Code for cheese, on the other hand, is DEAD.” — G. Clotaire Rapaille Copy Share Image
Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers. — David Hanson Copy Share Image
I didnt go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in… — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
I'm not a Luddite completely; I believe in refrigerators to cool my martinis, and washing machines because I hate to see women… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
The act of focusing our mightiest intellectual resources on the elusive goal of goto-less programs has helped us get our minds off… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lookin up at the huge baboons, I wondered if Khufu had some sort of secret baboon code that would get us in.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“the telemetrists began to use a computer to program the computer that designed the program for the computer that programmed the robot-controlling… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it so simple that there are obviously no… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
“What is truly revolutionary about molecular biology in the post-Watson-Crick era is that it has become digital...the machine code of the genes… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“It is not only the violin that shapes the violinist, we are all shaped by the tools we train ourselves to use,… — Edsger W. Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Coding, it's an endless process of trial and error, of trying to get the right command in the right place, with sometimes… — Reshma Saujani Copy Share Image
All religious vows, codes, and commitments are null & void herein. Please refrain from contaminating the ideosphere with harmful memes through prayer,… — Greg Erwin Copy Share Image
The Soviets are not just looking at Moscow, they have a very extensive program of not only research, development, they have built… — Fred Ikle Copy Share Image
Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a… — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
Real software engineers don't debug programs, they verify correctness. This process doesn't necessarily involve execution of anything on a computer, except perhaps… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“One such usage is the turtle module (which is also part of the standard library). To quote the Python docs: Turtle graphics… — Paul Barry Copy Share Image
“[T]he most elaborate code of [law]... would still have left unspecified a hundred ways in which wreckers of Communism could have sidetracked… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity. — Mitchell Baker Copy Share Image