Havens Quote by David Deutsch

If we can't program it, we can't understand it.

— David Deutsch

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

— Alan Perlis

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

— Alan Perlis

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

— Alan Perlis

“complicated code is a sign that you don't understand your program well enough to make it simple.”

— Steve McConnell

I never program anything, I decide at the last minute.

— Franca Sozzani

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing

— John Searle

“Programming is not about what you know. It's about what you can figure out.”

— Socrates

I don't like programming. It's tedious.

— Rasmus Lerdorf

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

— Allan Sherman

“What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.…

— Douglas Adams

You can and must understand computers NOW.

— Ted Nelson