Computers Quote by Niklaus Wirth

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

— Alan Perlis

All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.

— Paul Dickson

Successful software always gets changed.

— Fred Brooks

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

— Anonymous

“Fiddling with a program until it appears to work is a reliable way of obtaining a program that almost works”

— Andrew Koenig

Most programs are not write-once. They are reworked and rewritten again and again in their lived. Bugs must be debugged. Changing requirements and the…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive life. The process of converting one correct program into a different…

— Douglas Crockford

There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do…

— John Maeda

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

— Alan Perlis

The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].

— Tom Duff

A program that produces incorrect results twice as fast is infinitely slower.

— John Ousterhout

All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code.

— Dave Thomas