Computer Quote by Donald Knuth

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

— Anonymous

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

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

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

— Edsger Dijkstra

All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed biocomputers. No one of us can escape our own nature…

— John C. Lilly

The life-efficiency and adaptability of the computer must be questioned. Its judicious use depends upon the availability of its human employers quite literally to…

— Lewis Mumford

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

— Alan Perlis

When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask…

— Jaron Lanier

Most robots don't program themselves.

— Neil Strauss

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

— Alan Kay

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

— Donald Knuth

A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages

— Dave Barry