Programming Quote by Edsger W. Dijkstra

Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist.

— Friedrich L. Bauer

In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is…

— Edsger Dijkstra

“people overestimate the relative difficulty of science and engineering, because the challenges of those fields are obvious”

— Peter Thiel

Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

— Bjarne Stroustrup

“Software always remain softly for End users! But sometimes hardly to developers!”

— Bananeza Pacifique

“Complain about the way other people make software by making software.”

— Austin Kleon

“Programmers are isolated. They sit in their cubicle; they don't think about the larger picture. To my mind, a programmer is not an engineer,…

— Philip Greenspun

“Software is eating the world,” and soon the technologists will be coming for your job, too, just as they will continue to come for…

— Jonathan Taplin

“Like many academics, Howard was innocent of the world. He could identify thirty different ideological trends in the social sciences, but did not really…

— Zadie Smith

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and…

— Rick Cook

“What was amazing was that a large team of highly intelligent programmers could labor so hard and so long on such an unpromising project.…

— Anonymous

“We sort of understood abstractly the idea that there are only two kinds of software projects: failures and future legacy horrors.”

— Peter Weinberger