Computer Quote by Marvin Minsky

By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

— Donald Knuth

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

— Larry Wall

Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.

— Derek Sivers

“In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.”

— Nicholas Carr

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

— Edsger Dijkstra

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework…

— Hal Abelson

Computer scientists have so far worked on developing powerful programming languages that make it possible to solve the technical problems of computation. Little effort…

— Donald A. Norman

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

— Robert W. Floyd

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

— Donald Knuth

First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but…

— Hal Abelson

“Programming language is to the computer ; speaking in tongue is to God”

— Adewale Osunsakin

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

— Paul Graham