“I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.”
Kent Beck
HabitsProgramming
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.
“The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.”
Grady Booch
SoftwareSimplicity
“A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logical thinking, and on pedantic exactness.”
Niklaus Wirth
DesignPrecision
“Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.”
Alan Kay
PerspectiveThinking
“Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.”
Chris Pine
ProgrammingProblem Solving
“Code is like humour. When you have to explain it, it's bad.”
Cory House
Clean CodeFunny
“Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists.”
Kevin Kelly
OptimismFuture
“Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential.”
Ray Kurzweil
Exponential GrowthFuture
“I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.”Elon Musk
FeedbackImprovement
“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”
Richard Feynman
UnderstandingCreation
“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
Carl Sagan
ScienceThinking
“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
Stephen Hawking
HopePerseverance
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”
Marie Curie
FearUnderstanding
“We expect more from technology and less from each other.”
Sherry Turkle
TechnologyConnection
“The medium is the message.”
Marshall McLuhan
MediaShort Quotes
“Technology giveth and technology taketh away.”
Neil Postman
“You are not a gadget.”
Jaron Lanier
HumanityTechnology
“Let your joy be in your journey, not in some distant goal.”
Tim Cook
JourneyJoy
“Growth and comfort do not coexist.”
Ginni Rometty
GrowthComfort Zone
“Garbage in, garbage out.”
George Fuechsel
DataShort Quotes
“Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.”
Charles Babbage
DataDecisions
“All creative people want to do the unexpected.”
Hedy Lamarr
CreativityWomen In Tech
“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.”
Douglas Engelbart
GrowthLearning
“The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation.”
Leo Cherne
Humans And ComputersPartnership