Attitude Quote by Donald Knuth

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

— Donald Knuth

Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of…

— Tim O'Reilly

Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

— Douglas Crockford

“In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.”

— Nicholas Carr

When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings are going…

— Donald Knuth

A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make…

— Fred Brooks

Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.

— Stewart Brand

“A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.”

— Arthur Bloch

First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but…

— Hal Abelson

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

— Jaan Tallinn

Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is,…

— Larry Wall

First of all, you've got to have a vision of 'What kind of program do I want to have?' Then you've got to have…

— Nick Saban