Jobs Quote by Fred Brooks

There are two types of computer languages; those that people hate and those that nobody uses.

— John Ousterhout

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

— Alan Kay

The greatest single programming language ever designed

— Alan Kay

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

— Edsger Dijkstra

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

— Anonymous

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

The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is.…

— Richard Stallman

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

— Dennis Ritchie

“Programming language is to the computer ; speaking in tongue is to God”

— Adewale Osunsakin

The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power.

— E. J. Dionne

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and…

— Douglas Crockford

A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything…

— Raymond Simard