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“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.”

“I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.”

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Author:Maurice Wilkes

“The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs... and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined independently of all processors for that language, by establishing standards of rigor for proofs about programs in the language, appears to be novel.”

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Author:Robert W. Floyd

“The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a real programming language, designed for writing and maintaining substantial programs. Because people will want to do that!”

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Author:Richard Stallman

“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.”

“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

“A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.”

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Author:Alan Perlis

“Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.”

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Author:Linus Torvalds

“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.”

“The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.”

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

“As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.”

“A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do”

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Author:Dennis Ritchie

“If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.”

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Author:Robert Sewell

“There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.”

“Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.”

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Author:Philip Greenspun