Affected Quote by Gary Kildall

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

— Anonymous

The greatest single programming language ever designed

— Alan Kay

We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them…

— Guy Steele

I was a programmer.

— Paul Allen

“I don’t predict the demise of object-oriented programming, by the way. Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code.”

— Paul Graham

The major change was going from 'Black and White' to 'Fable,' because I was no longer programming, and I had spent most of my…

— Peter Molyneux

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could…

— Eric S. Raymond

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

— Grace Hopper

The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the…

— Alan Kay

It seemed really amazing that you could write a few lines of code and have it learn to do interesting things.

— Andrew Ng

As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.…

— Maurice Wilkes

The first phase of C was - really, it was two phases in short succession of, first, some language changes from B, really adding…

— Dennis Ritchie