Computing Quote by Alan Perlis

Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

— Alan Perlis

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

— Donald Knuth

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

— Anonymous

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

— Alan Perlis

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

— Bill Gates

Most programs are not write-once. They are reworked and rewritten again and again in their lived. Bugs must be debugged. Changing requirements and the…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

— Donald Knuth

The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones.

— Terry Winograd

It's something special being able to build a program up.

— Christen Press

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable

— Per Brinch Hansen

“A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.”

— Arthur Bloch