Hal Abelson Quotes
- If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an…
- Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
- The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change…
- We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion that…
- Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.
- There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.
- The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.
- First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather…
- If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.