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

— Donald Knuth

First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but…

— Hal Abelson

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

— Alan Perlis

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

— Alan Perlis

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

— Alan Perlis

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs

— Linus Torvalds

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

— Alan Perlis

The life-efficiency and adaptability of the computer must be questioned. Its judicious use depends upon the availability of its human employers quite literally to…

— Lewis Mumford

A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make…

— Fred Brooks

Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your…

— Rupert Sheldrake

When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings are going…

— Donald Knuth

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

— Arthur Bloch