It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust

You came into the world to do something

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone - there are many, many other things to be considered.

You can talk to me, you know. I'd never give away your secrets.""What's that saying about secrets?" she said lightly. "Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slope

What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

I love to work. I have a passion for what I do.

Masculinity & femininity are just styles. They are interpretations

What I understand about this concept of why is that it functions exactly the same way as parenting or exercise or any of these things we claim to invest in.

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.