Aesthetic Quote by Donald Knuth

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds…

— Marvin Minsky

Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces…

— Donald Knuth

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want…

— Roberta Williams

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

— Seth Lloyd

The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the ability to synthesize ideas.

— Boris Spassky

What the computer can do in art and design has turned aesthetics on its head... with the computer, things are not so much created…

— Nicholas von Hoffman

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

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

The computer needs...even by accident, offers incredible beautiful things that are very seductive. And if you forget about, or if you don't have an…

— Massimo Vignelli

I have been using the computer as a work aid since the mid-90's. It is extraordinarily well suited to how I think and work…

— Michael Craig-Martin

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the…

— Donald Knuth

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to…

— Andy Rooney