Best computer & computer-programming Quotes

“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”

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Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn”

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Author:Stephen Hawking

“For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to the "art of computer programming" through his well-known books in a continuous series by this title.”

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Author:Donald Knuth

“This week Apple stores are holding free computer programming classes for children. Or as that's called in China, a job fair.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“Technology and computers are very much at the core of our economy going forward. To be prepared for the demands of the 21st century-and to take advantage of its opportunities-it is essential that more of our students today learn basic computer programming skills, no matter what field of work they want to pursue.”

“Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.”

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Author:Tabatha Coffey

“I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldis in Queens.”

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Author:JWoww

“If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.”

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“Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.”

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Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

“I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that they see the world and they structure the world.”

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Author:Walter Mosley

“Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.”

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Author:Larry Wall

“On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

“In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“I was really looking at computers as a way to understand the mind. But at M.I.T., my mind was blown by having a whole computer to yourself as long as you liked.I felt a surge of intellectual power through access to this computer, and I started thinking about what this could mean for kids and the way they learn. That's when we developed the computer programming language for kids, Logo.”

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Author:Seymour Papert

“We often treat children as if they're not very competent to do anything on their own. So we make them stop learning in a natural way - by exploring. Logo [the computer programming language ] allows them to find their way around the computer, as they would find their way around the house, uncontaminated by the bureaucracies of schools.”

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Author:Seymour Papert

“In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is.”

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Author:Jeff Atwood

“Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.”

“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.”

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Author:Donald Knuth

“Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.”

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Author:Donald Knuth

“I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.”

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Author:Maya Lin

“It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.”

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Author:Alan Perlis

“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”

“One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.”

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Author:Ken Thompson

“Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.”

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Author:Steve Wozniak

“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”

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Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.”

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Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.”

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Author:Larry Niven

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”

“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.”

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