The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity. — Tony Hoare
The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in. — Andrei Codrescu
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning. — Maimonides
What Is Language Quotes
The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are. — Ludwig van Beethoven
The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass. — Queen Elizabeth II
A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language. — Noam Chomsky
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously. — Julio Cortazar
It gives a message to people of love... it does not matter what's the colour of your skin, what language do you speak, what religion do you believe in. It is that we should all consider each other as human beings and we should respect each other. — Malala Yousafzai
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language. — Miuccia Prada
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside? — Jackson Browne
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. — Dale Carnegie
What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural traditions. It is precisely this that defines my identity. Would I exist more authentically if I cut off a part of myself — Amin Maalouf
One of my big philosophies is that fighting is the sport that crosses all borders. I don't care what color you are, what country you come from or what language you speak, fighting is in our DNA. We get it and we like it. — Dana White
Computer Programming Quotes
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. — Linus Torvalds
When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music. — Martin Garrix
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. — Brian Kernighan
The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry. — Henry Petroski
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. — Edsger Dijkstra
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler
Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. — Linus Torvalds
Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind. — Donald Knuth
Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. A programmer who subconsciously views himself as an artist will enjoy what he does and will do it better. — Donald Knuth
Programming Languages Quotes
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic. — Eric Allin Cornell
Code never lies, comments sometimes do. — Ron Jeffries
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. — George Boole
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. — Richard E. Pattis
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. — Alan Kay
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. — Seymour Cray
Computer scientists have so far worked on developing powerful programming languages that make it possible to solve the technical problems of computation. Little effort has gone toward devising the languages of interaction. — Donald A. Norman
C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. — Dennis Ritchie
Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, "How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?" Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer. — Steve McConnell
Computer Software Quotes
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. — Greg Egan
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. — Craig Reucassel
The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog: it shits on the floor, it destroys things, and stinks - the novice-friendly software embodies the opposite of what computer people have dreamed of for decades: artificial stupidity. It's more human. — Erik Naggum
Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover. — Bill Gates
If the genome were a computer, the epigenome would be the software. It instructs the newly divided cells on what type of cells they should be and what they should remain, sometimes for decades, as in the case of individual brain neurons and certain immune cells. — David Sinclair
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended. — Wietse Venema
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. — Grady Booch
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. — William J. Clinton
Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is. — Dave Barry
Computer Science Quotes
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. — Lewis Thomas
Cryptocurrency is the first practical solution to a longstanding problem in computer science called the Byzantine Generals Problem. — Nick Szabo
I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company. — Balaji Srinivasan
Atlantis was a highly evolved civilization where the sciences and arts were far more advanced than one might guess. Atlantis was technologically advanced in genetic engineering, computer science, inter-dimensional physics, and artistically developed with electronic music and crystal art forms. — Frederick Lenz
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. — Kent Beck
Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead consumers of computer science. — Maria Klawe
Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet. — Gerald J. Popek
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur. — Rudy Rucker
Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random — Donald Knuth
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. — Eric S. Raymond
Assembly Language Quotes
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. — Larry Wall
The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language. — Mark Pearce
Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal — John Berger
I started out with machine code and assembly language. — Charles Petzold
Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore. — Yukihiro Matsumoto
Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same! — Fernando J. Corbato
C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on. — Erik Naggum
A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn't. — Raymond Simard
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human. — Alan Turing
One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning". — Alan Turing
No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental destruction. What's called for on the Earth at this time is really a change of heart ... the question is really not the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity. — Jack Kornfield
Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred... Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace. — Hafez
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village. — Thabo Mbeki
All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world? — James Hillman
Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer and operate computer systems — Kevin Mitnick
This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways. — Bill Gates
Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail. — Jakob Nielsen
In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few basic ones, and trash the rest. — Massimo Vignelli
Let's stick to the practical and the concrete: Would you like it if people lived in a virtual world? If machines were smarter than people? If, in the future, people, animals and plants were products of technology? If you don't like these ideas, then for you the computer and biological sciences clearly are dangerous. — Theodore Kaczynski
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time. — J. G. Ballard
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway. — Bernard Avishai
Earth as a dynamical system is a really bad computer. A lot of information processing is concentrated in a few tiny compute nodes brains, chips with terrible interconnects, even as bad as use of physical translation and air pressure waves. And powered primitively by combustion. — Andrej Karpathy
The computational power of the network is proportional to difficulty; and it appears that difficulty is proportional to bitcoin price. It follows that unless bitcoins become substantially more valuable than they are today, the Bitcoin network will never be substantially more resistant to attack than it is today. For Bitcoin to succeed and become secure, bitcoins must become vastly more expensive. — Hal Finney
For us it's much more becoming a story of How do humans and computers collaborate to actually create these vector space data sets? — Andrej Karpathy
The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. — Tim Berners-Lee
You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously. — Wim Crouwel
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable. — Leslie Lamport
The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment. — Michio Kaku
Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result. — Alan Turing
Come on, guys, I am a computer nerd. I love Hollywood and movies. My whole life is like a movie. — Kim Dotcom
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