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“Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“When I was at Tek, I was frustrated that computer hardware was being improved faster than computer software. I wanted to invent some software that was completely different, that would grow and change as it was used. That's how wiki came about.”

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Author:Ward Cunningham

“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 am confident that we can do better than GUIs because the basic problem with them (and with the Linux and Unix interfaces) is that they ask a human being to do things that we know experimentally humans cannot do well. The question I asked myself is, given everything we know about how the human mind works, could we design a computer and computer software so that we can work with the least confusion and greatest efficiency?”

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Author:Jef Raskin

“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

“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.”

“Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.”

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Author:Andy Rooney

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

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Author:Ken Thompson

“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