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Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The… — David Gelernter
Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't. — David Gelernter
Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify… — David Gelernter
Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end. — Khalil Gibran
At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of which is the… — Tom Gilb
This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does. — Timothy Gowers
Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof… — Ronald Graham
Programming is an explanatory activity. — Roman Harper
The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent. — Werner Heisenberg
It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous, technical… — Andy Hertzfeld
I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if… — Tony Hoare
In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition… — Tony Hoare
What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related?… — Tony Hoare
To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself. The… — Jim Horning
One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a lot cheaper to… — Cay S. Horstmann
We teachers make the road, others will make the journey. — Victor Hugo
In the particular is contained the universal. — James Joyce
If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a view of all… — John G. Kemeny
Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it… — Brian Kernighan
...methods are more important than facts. The educational value of a problem given to a student depends mostly on how often the thought processes that… — Donald Knuth

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