Computer programming Quote by Edsger Dijkstra

A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its…

— Edsger Dijkstra

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

— Alan Perlis

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

— Seymour Papert

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

— Paul Graham

“Habits, not ideas, are the programming language of human beings”

— Danny Dover

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework…

— Hal Abelson

“It is not only the violin that shapes the violinist, we are all shaped by the tools we train ourselves to use, and in…

— Edsger W. Dijkstra

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

— Anonymous

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

Programming is an explanatory activity.

— Roman Harper

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think…

— Larry Wall

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

— Nicholas Negroponte