Books Quote by Marijn Haverbeke

The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.

— Edsger Dijkstra

“If you program a machine, you know what it’s capable of. If the machine is programming itself, who knows what it might do? The”

— Garry Kasparov

“Third, they reflect a different perspective on the role of computation, in which computation is integrated much more directly with the artifacts themselves. In…

— Paul Dourish

The purpose creates the machine.

— Arthur Young

“Computational processes are abstract beings that inhabit computers. As they evolve, processes manipulate other abstract things called data. The evolution of a process is…

— Anonymous

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

— Alan Perlis

The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material particles to…

— Paul Davies

The machine conceals the machinations.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We taught ourselves to simulate how microprocessors work using DEC computers so we could develop software even before our machine was built.

— Paul Allen

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

— Brian Kernighan

“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

“Of all the Programmers' planets, ours is the supercomputing golden child, the world that inexplicably provides enough power to light up the galaxy.”

— David Eagleman