1.
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
John von Neumann
There is little point in being exact when you are unaware of the topic.
2.
I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?
Lewis Carroll
3.
For many phenomena, 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes.
Joseph M. Juran
5.
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
Alan Turing
7.
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
Edsger Dijkstra
8.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
Linus Torvalds
9.
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
Alan Kay
10.
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.
Niklaus Wirth
11.
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)
Eric S. Raymond
12.
All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
George Bernard Shaw
13.
Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
Donald Knuth
17.
There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.
Rob Pike
19.
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
23.
I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Ray Bradbury
24.
Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.
Khalil Gibran
25.
Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.
Nicholas Negroponte
26.
Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.
Tony Hoare
27.
To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Stephen Hawking
28.
The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.
Tony Hoare
29.
The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.
Brian Kernighan
30.
There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
Vinton Cerf
31.
Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.
Jakob Nielsen
32.
If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person who is doing it!
Amar Bose
33.
The greatest single programming language ever designed
Alan Kay
34.
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
Maimonides
36.
Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.
Kent Beck
37.
I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
38.
If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
Ken Thompson
39.
Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.
Amar Bose
40.
The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.
Ronald Fisher
42.
Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.
Douglas Crockford
43.
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
44.
Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.
Confucius
45.
You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
Ken Thompson
47.
If you don’t take responsibility for programming yourself, then someone else will.
Paul McKenna
49.
Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick
Charles Petzold