Chess Quote by Eric Allin Cornell

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

— Bobby Fischer

Programming is usually taught by examples.

— Niklaus Wirth

Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated.

— Levon Aronian

In an age when schools are facing significant budgetary restraints, there is a greater need than ever to make chess available to as many…

— Garry Kasparov

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.

— Lubomir Kavalek

To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could…

— Niklaus Wirth

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

— Charles Petzold

Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.

— Kenneth Rogoff

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

— Alan Turing

BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.

— Seymour Papert

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I…

— John Carmack