Programming Quotes

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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but… — Alan Kay
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his… — John Keats
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. — Donald Knuth
The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a… — Donald Knuth
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to… — Donald Knuth
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. — Donald Knuth
A list is only as strong as its weakest link. — Donald Knuth
A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving. — Ray Kurzweil
We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not. — Ray Kurzweil
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. — Maya Lin
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth. — H P Lovecraft
Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice… — Shirley Manson
Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower. — Phil McGraw
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus
When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other… — Robert Moog
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. — Nicholas Negroponte
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about. — John von Neumann
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with… — John von Neumann
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal

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