Accepting Quote by Jaron Lanier

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

— Donald Knuth

A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make…

— Fred Brooks

Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces…

— Donald Knuth

Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of…

— Tim O'Reilly

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make…

— Tim Berners-Lee

“Programming is the act of installing internal, pre-established reactions to external stimuli so that a person will automatically react in a predetermined manner to…

— Arauna Morgan

As a programmer, you're working with very simple structures compared to the brain. So I was always fascinated by how the brain works.

— Paul Allen

As someone who was basically a software engineer for many years, I became fascinated with how the brain functions and is put together and…

— Paul Allen

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what…

— Donald Knuth

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

— Alan Perlis

I was really looking at computers as a way to understand the mind. But at M.I.T., my mind was blown by having a whole…

— Seymour Papert

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the…

— Donald Knuth