Branches Quote by Edsger Dijkstra

Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.

— Doron Zeilberger

“Programming was very different from mathematics, as it was far more creative. In math, there was one right answer, and you worked at a…

— B.V. Larson

My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for…

— Seymour Papert

Programming is all about numbers.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

— Alan Turing

Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be considered significant…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

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

Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.

— William Thurston

When we had no computers, we had no programming problem either. When we had a few computers, we had a mild programming problem. Confronted…

— Edsger Dijkstra

People sometimes have a view of programming that is something solitary and very technical. But programming is among the most creative, expressive, and social…

— Craig Federighi

There are certainly lots of jobs in computer coding, but coding doesn't really require advanced mathematics. And engineering jobs, they vary widely in the…

— Anya Kamenetz

“nobody seemed to think programming is a solved problem: most are still looking for a better way to write software, whether by finding ways…

— Peter Seibel