Computer programming Quote by Émilie Du Châtelet

If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it.

— Richard E. Pattis

Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.

— Alfred Aho

If you really want to be a good archaeologist, you have to understand ancient DNA; you have to understand chemical analysis to figure out…

— Sarah Parcak

I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot…

— Alan Perlis

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

— David Gelernter

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.

— Michael Crichton

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

— Robert Coveyou

I was interested in computer programming as a kid. In fact, during my college days, I used to be a hacker.

— Vatsal Sheth

When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly true. In…

— Donald Knuth

A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.

— Darwin D. Martin

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

— Jim Horning

Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

— Brian Kernighan