Computer programming Quote by Arthur Bloch Download Open image ““A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.”” — Arthur Bloch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computer programming Computers Programming
“Be careful, and go slowly. Computers are intolerant of mistakes; they do just what you tell them to do, not what you meant for… — Peter H. Gregory Copy Share Image
“If you program a machine, you know what it’s capable of. If the machine is programming itself, who knows what it might do? The” — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Programming is not about what you know. It's about what you can figure out.” — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Software will give you respect, but hardware will give you the Power.” — Akshat Paul Copy Share Image
“The truth is that computer science is not really about the computer. It is just a tool to help you see ideas more clearly.” — Carlos Bueno 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
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 Copy Share Image
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
“A computer does two things, and two things only: it performs calculations and it remembers the results of those calculations.” — John V. Guttag Copy Share Image
Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
“complicated code is a sign that you don't understand your program well enough to make it simple.” — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to… — Arthur Bloch Copy Share Image
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go… — Arthur Bloch Copy Share Image
When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly. — Arthur Bloch Copy Share Image
An expert is the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most. — Arthur Bloch Copy Share Image
If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction. — Arthur Bloch Copy Share Image
Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done. — Arthur Bloch Copy Share Image
If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it. — Alfred Aho Copy Share Image
If you really want to be a good archaeologist, you have to understand ancient DNA; you have to understand chemical analysis to figure out… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot… — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. — Robert Coveyou Copy Share Image
I was interested in computer programming as a kid. In fact, during my college days, I used to be a hacker. — Vatsal Sheth Copy Share Image
When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly true. In… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded. — Darwin D. Martin Copy Share Image
Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance. — Jim Horning Copy Share Image
Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one. — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
