Programming Quotes

653 quotes by 371 authors

Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average programmer,… — Edsger Dijkstra
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury, but… — Edsger Dijkstra
Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs. — Edsger Dijkstra
If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depths of nature. You can always blame God. You didn't… — Edsger Dijkstra
Have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in… — Freeman Dyson
The biggest breakthrough in the next 50 years will be the discovery of extraterrestrial life. We have been searching for it for 50 years and… — Freeman Dyson
I just want things to work properly. — James Dyson
Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters,… — Roger Ebert
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet… — Roger Ebert
Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting parts. — Larry Ellison
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics. — Richard P. Feynman
The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change. — Ronald Fisher
While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers. — Bill Gates
There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software. — Bill Gates
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great length. If not… — William Gibson
Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power. — George Gilder
Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design… — I. J. Good
All of us who attended the meeting - including Microsoft - unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt compatibility among Java… — James Gosling
You know, most people in the open-source world who use open-source software don't actually do builds themselves - those people just download the binaries. And… — James Gosling

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