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  • I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that.

    Song   Thinking   Littles  
    Source: www.songfacts.com
  • The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.

  • When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

    "The Universal Book of Mathematics". Book by David Darling, p. 34, November 8, 2004.
  • If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later without running into a wall and having to stop. Whereas it might take three or four hours if you start over, you might finish if you just work that extra hour. If you're a morning person, the day always intrudes a fixed amount of time in the future. So it's much less efficient. Which is why I think computer people tend to be night people - because a machine doesn't get sleepy.

    Running   Morning   Wall  
  • I didn't realize how good I was with technology until I met my parents... my dad told me "You're good; you should be a computer programmer." I said, "You're bad... you should be a caveman."

    Funny   Dad   Humor  
  • Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

    "Burden of the years weighs on Windows" by Steve Lohr and John Markoff, www.nytimes.com. March 26, 2006.
  • Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

    Roots   Evil   Simplicity  
  • The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.

    Media   Creating   Air  
    "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering". Book by Fred Brooks, 1975.
  • Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

    Soul   Levels   Computer  
  • The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.

    "The Emperor's Old Clothes". Tony Hoare's lecture at the 1980 ACM Turing Award in Nashville, Tennessee; "Communications of the ACM", Volume 24, Issue 2, dl.acm.org. February 1981.
  • I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

    Lecture titled "The Design and Use of the EDSAC" delivered by Maurice Wilkes at the Digital Computer Museum, tcm.computerhistory.org. September 23, 1979.
  • Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

  • Teaming up with the scientists, researchers and computer programmers at Intel to collaborate and co-develop new ways to communicate, create, inform and entertain is going to be amazing.

  • The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

    "How do we tell truths that might hurt?" by Edsger Dijkstra, June 18, 1975.
  • One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

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

    Writing   Errors   Two  
    "Epigrams on Programming". ACM "SIGPLAN" Notices 17 (9), (pp. 7-13), September 1982.
  • While we may continue to use the words smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may persist for certain purposes, the monopoly of those who believe in a single general intelligence has come to an end. Brain scientists and geneticists are documenting the incredible differentiation of human capacities, computer programmers are creating systems that are intelligent in different ways, and educators are freshly acknowledging that their students have distinctive strengths and weaknesses.

    Smart   Stupid   Believe  
  • The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

  • Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

    Player   Skills   Mad  
    James Gleick (1992). “Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman”, Pantheon
  • Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

    "Excel HSC Softw Design&Devel + Cards SG". Book by Geoff Lancaster, 2001.
  • A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

    "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
  • Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

    Learning   Golf   Games  
  • Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

    Trying   Purpose   Defeat  
    Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger (1978). “The Elements of Programming Style”, Computing McGraw-Hill
  • Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

    Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media
  • The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

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

    Memorandum to Peter van Emde Boas, 29 Mar. 1977
  • In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.

    "The Mythical Man-Month". Book by Fred Brooks, 1975.
  • Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

    "The Advice For Any Woman Who Wants To Found A Startup" by Jessica Livingston, www.businessinsider.com. January 31, 2011.
  • Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.

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