Operating system Quote by Wiki Books

“int at the beginning means that main will return an integer to the operating system”

— Wiki Books

“A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.”

— Arthur Bloch

“The program works, if you work it.”

— Alcoholics Anonymous

Programming is all about numbers.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

— Charles Petzold

“However, a real implementation may still have to include code to handle the case where something happens that was assumed to be impossible, even…

— Martin Kleppmann

Ask Bill [Gates] why the string in [MS-DOS] function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer. Only I…

— Gary Kildall

“When we combine the set of whole numbers with their opposites, including zero, we obtain a set of numbers we call integers. That”

— Judith Sowder

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

— Alan Perlis

If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still — nothing.

— Ayn Rand

“I got zero on a maths test once," I said. "The teacher said he'd wanted to give me a minus number, but the computer…

— J.L. Merrow

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

— Tom Duff