Data Quote by Ken Thompson

When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.

— Stephen Cambone

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

— Tim O'Reilly

A data structure is just a stupid programming language.

— Bill Gosper

And anytime a programmer makes a decision about how to deal with data, how to average it or clean it, you're imparting more of…

— Hannah Fry

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

— Eric S. Raymond

Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive life. The process of converting one correct program into a different…

— Douglas Crockford

Even for the very best programmers ah, sometimes you'll see someone else's program or somebody will come along and they'll show you what can…

— Bill Gates

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

— Ted Nelson

Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.

— Richard Stallman

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

— Alan Perlis

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

— Alan Perlis

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

— Edsger Dijkstra