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598 quotes by 321 authors

Doctors can be replaced by software â€“Â 80% of them can.Â Iâ€™d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the… — Vinod Khosla
Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same sense that mankind… — Douglas Lenat
With the DS and Wii, following the titles that were released at launch, the momentum dropped when there was a gap in software releases. We're… — Satoru Iwata
The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is… — Fred Brooks
Successful software always gets changed. — Fred Brooks
In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them. Now, however, time-sharing… — Robert Fano
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
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
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 of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every… — Donald Knuth
The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for the successful evolution… — Richard E. Pattis
Microsoft knows that reliable software is not cost effective. According to studies, 90% to 95% of all bugs are harmless. They're never discovered by users,… — Bruce Schneier
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh… — Niklaus Wirth
You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are… — Bill Joy
Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are… — Edsger Dijkstra
The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation. — Donald Knuth
... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first… — Donald Knuth
I think psychoanalyze-pinhead is the important lesson of GNU Emacs. — Todd Bennett
The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual… — Bill McKibben
When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically. — Ron Jeffries

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