“Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”
Fred Brooks
SoftwareProject Management
Computer Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · COMPUTER
Computer Quotes
Read 200 of the best computer quotes from Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Donald Knuth and more on computers, programming, the internet and technology.
“Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.”
Fred Brooks
SoftwarePrototyping
“Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.”
Niklaus Wirth
SoftwareHardware
“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.”
Bjarne Stroustrup
Programming LanguagesFunny
“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”
Bjarne Stroustrup
Programming LanguagesWit
“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
DebuggingProgramming
“Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.”
Brian Kernighan
ComplexityProgramming
“When in doubt, use brute force.”
Ken Thompson
ProgrammingProblem Solving
“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.”
Dennis Ritchie
Operating SystemsSimplicity
“The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.”
Larry Wall
ProgrammersFunny
“Code is read much more often than it is written.”
Guido van Rossum
Clean CodePython
“Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex.”
Tim Peters
PythonSimplicity
“Clean code always looks like it was written by someone who cares.”
Michael Feathers
Clean CodeCraftsmanship
“Make it work, make it right, make it fast.”
Kent Beck
SoftwareProcess
“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.”
Phil Karlton
Computer ScienceFunny
“Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.”
Edsger Dijkstra
TestingSoftware
“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.”
C. A. R. Hoare
Software DesignSimplicity
“I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.”
C. A. R. Hoare
ProgrammingMistakes
“A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.”
Alan Perlis
Programming LanguagesLearning
“Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.”
Alan Perlis
SimplicityComplexity
“Humans are allergic to change.”
Grace Hopper
ChangeHuman Nature
“Like what you do, and then you will do your best.”
Katherine Johnson
PassionWork
“Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world. There was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners.”
Margaret Hamilton
ApolloWomen In Tech
“The Internet is a reflection of our society and that mirror is going to be reflecting what we see.”
Vint Cerf
InternetSociety
“The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.”
Bill Gates
InternetGlobal Village