Computer Science Quotes

• I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. (Isaac Asimov)
• Never let a computer know you’re in a hurry
• Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. – Joseph Campbell
• Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell.
• The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before. – Bill Gates
• Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.
• Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. – John F. Kennedy
• Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window. – Steve Wozniak
• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. – Pablo Picasso
• A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind – Joseph Weizenbaum
• We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins – Ellen Ullman
• A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren’t broken.
• Computers can never replace human stupidity
• The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.
• Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container. – Nathan Myhrvold
• If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. – Linus Torvalds
• Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. – Abelson and Sussman
• Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. – Michael Sinz
• Before software should be reusable, it should be usable. – Ralph Johnson
• If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess. – Rod Michael

Programmers Quotes

Michael A. Jackson “ Rules of Optimization: Rule 1: Don’t do it. Rule 2 (for experts only): Don’t do it yet. ”

Alan Kay  “ Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. ”

John Johnson “ First, solve the problem. Then, write the code. ”

Eagleson’s law "Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. “

Alan Perlis “ When someone says, ‘I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,’ give him a lollipop. ”

David Parnas  “ Copy and paste is a design error.

Tom Cargill  “ The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time. ”

Nathan Myhrvold  “ Software sucks because users demand it to. ”

Martin Fowler  “ Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. ”

Brian Kernighan  “ 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. ”

Edward V Berard  “ Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. ”