Computer Quote by Michael Jackson

The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at…

— Niklaus Wirth

“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

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

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

Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable…

— Matt Blaze

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

— Brian Kernighan

The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs... and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined independently of…

— Robert W. Floyd

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

— Joseph Weizenbaum

To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself.…

— Jim Horning

“Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it. Our applications are complex because we are ambitious to use our computers in ever…

— C.A.R. Hoare

Overemphasis of efficiency leads to an unfortunate circularity in design: for reasons of efficiency early programming languages reflected the characteristics of the early computers,…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

When we had no computers, we had no programming problem either. When we had a few computers, we had a mild programming problem. Confronted…

— Edsger Dijkstra