Computers Quote by Edward de Bono

“Software is like a science. We show correctness by failing to prove incorrectness, despite our best efforts.”

— Robert C Martin

“There are only 2 hard things in programming: naming, cache invalidation, and off-by-one-errors.”

— Mattt Thompson

“All programmers are optimists”

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

“W. Edwards Deming—that arguably, over 90 percent of problems are due to bad systems, not bad people. However, Greenleaf correctly points out that people…

— Robert K. Greenleaf

“complexity introduced the possibility of greater error and because no working tool needed greater errors.”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that…

— Amos Tversky

“The lack of high-skillful problem-solver is a significant problem for the world.”

— Pearl Zhu

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

“As so often happens in computer science, we’re willing to sacrifice efficiency for generality.”

— Pedro Domingos

“problem solving, however necessary, does not produce results. It prevents damage. Exploiting opportunities produces results.”

— Peter F. Drucker

The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language,…

— Paul Vixie

“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