“Computers do not solve problems -computers carry out solutions, specified by people, to problems” - D. D. Spencer
“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn” - Phil Collins
“UNIX was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from doing clever things.” - Doug Gwyn
“When someone says: 'I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done', give him a lollipop” - Alan J. Perlis
“Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries” - Neville Brody
“A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.” - Alan J. Perlis
“Inside every large program is a small program trying to get out.” – Tony Hoare
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“The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.” - John Ousterhout
“Technology is only technology to people born before it was invented.” – Alan Kay
“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.” - Martin Golding
“Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free” - Richard Stallman
“The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless” - Bram Cohen
1900 - In a lecture to the International Congress of Mathematicians, David Hilbert asks for way to mechanize all of mathematical reasoning
“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes” - Edsger Dijkstra
“L’informatique est une science à la fois théorique et expérimentale où l’expérience passe par la programmation.” – Gérard Berry
“A successful [software] tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author” - S. C. Johnson
“Les logiciels que les élèves d'aujourd'hui utiliseront en entreprise demain n'existent pas encore.” – Inconnu
“If you don't get innate pleasure from writing code, it's time to move on” - Tim Lister
“When the final design seems too simple for the amount of work you've put in, then you know you're done” - Brady Clark
“Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes” - Harlan Mills
“Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code” - Dan Salomon
“To iterate is human, to recurse divine” - L. Peter Deutsch
“Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind” - Donald E. Knuth
“If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent'” - Dijkstra
“In programming, the hard part isn't solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve” - Paul Graham
'Programming languages teach you not to want what they don't provide.' – Paul Graham
we don't call painting “brush art”, nor surgery “knife science” Dijkstra
“A programming language is a tool that has a profound influence on our thinking habits” - Edsger Dijkstra
If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases. – Guy Steele
All but the very simplest programs rely on the fact that the elements of a combination can themselves be combinations. – SICP