Achievement Quote by Hal Abelson

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

— will.i.am

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

— Donald Knuth

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

— Alan Perlis

UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.

— Dennis Ritchie

Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.

— Dave Cutler

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

— Alan Turing

UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system.

— Ellen Ullman

Computer science education is important.

— Eric Adams

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

— Henry Spencer

Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a…

— Mitch Kapor

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

— Anonymous

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to…

— Linus Torvalds