If you take over a programme from a longstanding incumbent, not everyone's going to like it. — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Larry Wall's classic Programming Perl described the three programmer's virtues: hubris, laziness, and impatience.” — CJS Hayward Copy Share Image
“As usual in programming, if something is difficult for you to understand, it’s probably not a good idea.” — Mark Lutz Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut. — Linda Pastan Copy Share Image
Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
“We have to let the Warrior Code rule our hearts. The death of a warrior does not mean victory.” — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
“Did you win your sword fight?" "Of course I won the fucking sword fight," Hiro says. "I'm the greatest sword fighter in… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Hackers, makers, programmers, engineers, nerds, techies — what we’ll call “geeks” for the rest of the book (deal with it) — we’re… — Jeff Potter Copy Share Image
“Testing may convincingly demonstrate the presence of bugs, but can never demonstrate their absence."- Edsger W. Dijkstra, Computing Pioneer (1930–2002), "Programming as… — Gerald M. Weinberg 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
I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised', then turn the TV off. Those… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out,… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Every invention creates new needs, but the biggest needs are not for new and more advanced versions of the last invention but… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“The main thing I want to show in this chapter is that there is no magic involved in building your own language.… — Marijn Haverbeke Copy Share Image
“Programmers are isolated. They sit in their cubicle; they don't think about the larger picture. To my mind, a programmer is not… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
“by letter in Morse code. Kittinger says it was a joke, but Simons didn’t take it that way. (Morse code has always… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Even in our own agriculture strategy, if we got a great new drought-resistant seed and we managed to get it distributed in… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“Much of my time is spent teaching the internet what to say to people.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9 — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
