Computing
Quotes & Thinkers in Computing
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"Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done."
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🇬🇧Tony Hey
Politics
b. 1946
1 quotes
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Science
1930–2002
"The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity, of mastering multitude and avoiding its bastard chaos as effectively as possible."
63 quotes
🇺🇸Diana Gabaldon
Literature
b. 1952
"For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary"
9 quotes
🇬🇧Ada Lovelace
Mathematics
1815–1852
"A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth."
9 quotes
🇺🇸Gordon Bell
Technology
1934–2024
"A Broadband Cable for TV is like a sewer pipe that in principle can carry gas, water, and waste: it is easy to get all that shit in there, but hard to separate it out again."
6 quotes
🇺🇸Sergey Brin
Technology
b. 1973
"... whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party."
6 quotes
🇺🇸Gene Spafford
Technology
b. 1956
"Don't sweat it -- it's not real life. It's only ones and zeroes."
8 quotes
Notable Quotes
"Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens, You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I wilna let ye go."
— Diana Gabaldon, b. 1952View →
"The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity, of mastering multitude and avoiding its bastard chaos as effectively as possible."
— Edsger W. Dijkstra, b. 1930View →
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"
— Edsger W. Dijkstra, b. 1930View →
"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
— Edsger W. Dijkstra, b. 1930View →
"As economics is known as "The Miserable Science", software engineering should be known as "The Doomed Discipline", doomed because it cannot even approach its goal since its goal is self-contradictory. Software engineering has accepted as its charter "How to program if you cannot."
— Edsger W. Dijkstra, b. 1930View →