Computers Quote by Anonymous

Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is…

— Guido van Rossum

“when in Pythonland, do as Pythonistas do, not as C programmers do.”

— Mark Lutz

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very…

— Guido van Rossum

Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java…

— Guido van Rossum

“Some automatic responses are good — they're skills, and we need them for life and labor. But the tendency to accumulate programming tends to…

— John Shirley

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

— Donald Knuth

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

— Michael Palin

My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals…

— Guido van Rossum

Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed.

— Richard E. Pattis

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

— Anonymous

“Moreover, depending on your Python and code, list comprehensions might run much faster than manual for loop statements (often roughly twice as fast) because…

— Mark Lutz

“And the reason everyone doesn’t use Listp is that programming languages are not merely technologies, but habits of mind as well, and nothing changes…

— Paul Graham