Assignments Quote by Kevin Mitnick

The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler…

— Kevin Mitnick

Leonardo Fibonacci, the great 13th century Italian mathematician (1175-1250) created the 'Fibonacci sequence' to explain behavior in nature mathematically. History has it that the…

— Rick Santelli

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

— Alan Perlis

“It is a little like developing the habit of stealing the test from your teacher’s desk instead of learning how to do the math.”

— Josh Waitzkin

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.

— Marvin Minsky

I really didn't understand why hackers would want to hack into a classroom. Are they going to learn algebra? Maybe calculus?

— Eric Yuan

Programming is all about numbers.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

“Programming was very different from mathematics, as it was far more creative. In math, there was one right answer, and you worked at a…

— B.V. Larson

As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.

— Kevin Mitnick

“The first hackers were people in software who like solving problems and believe in freedom and helping each other. They produced a lot of…

— CJS Hayward

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

— Grace Hopper

It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

— Philip Emeagwali