Complexity Quote by Joseph Weizenbaum

“The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the…

— Marijn Haverbeke

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful,…

— Joseph Weizenbaum

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

— Brian Kernighan

Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

— Douglas Crockford

The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion…

— Anonymous

All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed biocomputers. No one of us can escape our own nature…

— John C. Lilly

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

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

We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are…

— Seth Lloyd

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 a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy…

— Damian Conway

The primary consequence of the computational nature of the universe is that the universe naturally generates complex systems, such as life. Although the basic…

— Seth Lloyd