Jan 11
“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines. There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.”
As Bill Gates once warned, computers have indeed become our silicon masters, pervading nearly every aspect of our modern lives. As a result, some of the greatest minds of our time have pondered the significance of computers and software on the human condition. Following are 101 great quotes about computers, with an emphasis on programming, since after all this is a software development site.
Computers
- “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
(Pablo Picasso)
- “Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.”
(Sam Ewing)
- “They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.”
(Janet Reno)
- “That’s what’s cool about working with computers. They don’t argue, they remember everything, and they don’t drink all your beer.”
(Paul Leary)
- “If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.”
(Robert X. Cringely)
Computer Intelligence
- “Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by ‘they’, I mean ‘computers’. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)”
(Dave Barry)
- “I’ve noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS.”
(Larry DeLuca)
- “The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.”
(Edsger W. Dijkstra)
- “It’s ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.”
(Marvin Minsky)
Trust
- “The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!”
(C3PO)
- “Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.”
(Steve Wozniak)
Hardware
- “Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.”
(Jeff Pesis)
Software
- “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.”
(Alan Kay)
- “I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.”
(Dennie van Tassel)
Operating Systems
- “There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.”
(Jeremy S. Anderson)
- “19 Jan 2038 at 3:14:07 AM”
(End of the word according to Unix–2^32 seconds after January 1, 1970)
- “Every operating system out there is about equal… We all suck.”
(Microsoft senior vice president Brian Valentine describing the state of the art in OS security, 2003)
- “Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.‘ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever.‘ “
(Dave Barry)
Internet
- “The Internet? Is that thing still around?”
(Homer Simpson)
- “The Web is like a dominatrix. Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit.”
(Nytwind)
- “Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare.”
(Blair Houghton)
Software Industry
- “The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.”
(Henry Petroski)
- “True innovation often comes from the small startup who is lean enough to launch a market but lacks the heft to own it.”
(Timm Martin)
- “It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.”
(Alan Cooper)
- “It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.”
(Lou Gerstner)
- “We are Microsoft. Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated.”
(Bumper sticker)
Software Demos
- “No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.”
(Mark Gibbs)
Software Patents
- “The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It’s up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.”
(Linus Torvalds)
Complexity
- “Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.”
(Brian Kernigan)
- “Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.”
(Ray Ozzie)
- “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)
- “The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.”
(Grady Booch)
Ease of Use
- “Just remember: you’re not a ‘dummy,’ no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who–though technically expert–couldn’t design hardware and software that’s usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it.”
(Walter Mossberg)
- “Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more ‘user-friendly’… Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words ‘user-friendly’ on the cover.”
(Bill Gates)
- “There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.”
(Bjarne Stroustrup)
Users
- “Any fool can use a computer. Many do.”
(Ted Nelson)
- “There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’.”
(Edward Tufte)
Programmers
- “Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.”
(Rich Cook)
- “Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.”
(Larry Wall)
- “The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.”
(Seymour Cray)
- “That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.”
(Larry Niven)
- “For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.”
(Bill Bryson)
- “Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.”
(Eric Raymond)
- “A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place.”
(IEEE Grid newsmagazine)
- “A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more.”
(Peter Seebach)
- “The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.”
(Randall E. Stross)
- “A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.”
(Bill Gates)
Programming
- “Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job.”
(Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering)
- “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
(Bill Gates)
- “Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing.”
(Gerald Weinberg)
- “First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.”
(George Carrette)
- “First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.”
(John Johnson)
- “Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.”
(Kent Beck)
- “To iterate is human, to recurse divine.”
(L. Peter Deutsch)
- “The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.”
(Anonymous)
- “Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.”
(Stan Kelly-Bootle)
Programming Languages
- “There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses.”
(Bjarne Stroustrup)
- “PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.”
(Jon Ribbens)
- “The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense.”
(E.W. Dijkstra)
- “It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.”
(E. W. Dijkstra)
- “I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing.”
(Oktal)
- “There is no programming language–no matter how structured–that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.”
(Larry Flon)
- “Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.”
(Larry Wall)
C/C++
- “Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++?”
(Richard A. O’Keefe)
- “Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.”
(Bob Gray)
- “In C++ it’s harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg.”
(Bjarne Stroustrup)
- “C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.”
(Gavin Russell Baker)
- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.”
(Robert Firth)
Java
- “Java is, in many ways, C++–.”
(Michael Feldman)
- “Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSes is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.”
(Alanna)
- “Fine, Java MIGHT be a good example of what a programming language should be like. But Java applications are good examples of what applications SHOULDN’T be like.”
(pixadel)
- “If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.”
(Robert Sewell)
Open Source
- “Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free.”
(Linus Torvalds)
- “The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.”
(David Emery)
Code
- “Good code is its own best documentation.”
(Steve McConnell)
- “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.”
(Eagleson’s Law)
- “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.”
(Tom Cargill)
Software Development
- “Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case.”
(Francis Glassborow)
- “In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer’s shifting idea of what their problem is.”
(Jeff Atwood)
- “Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.”
(Bill Clinton)
- “You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families.”
(Jim McCarthy)
Debugging
- “As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.”
(Maurice Wilkes discovers debugging, 1949)
- “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)
- “If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.”
(Edsger W. Dijkstra)
Quality
- “I don’t care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!”
(Vidiu Platon)
- “Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime.”
(Michael Sinz)
- “There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.”
(Alan J. Perlis)
- “You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.”
(Bertrand Meyer)
- “If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more.’ “
(Mark Minasi)
- “Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.”
(Martin Golding)
- “To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.”
(Paul Ehrlich)
- “A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history–with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.”
(Mitch Radcliffe)
Predictions
- “Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
(Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899)
- “I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers.”
(Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM, circa 1948)
- “It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.”
(John Von Neumann, circa 1949)
- “But what is it good for?”
(Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, commenting on the microchip, 1968)
- “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.”
(Ken Olson, President, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977)
- “640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
(Bill Gates, 1981)
- “Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need.”
(Microsoft, on the development of Windows NT, 1992)
- “We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0.”
(Andy Pierson)
- “If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”
(Frank Lloyd Wright)
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January 21st, 2009 at 6:22 pm
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April 17th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
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April 20th, 2010 at 6:24 am
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May 1st, 2010 at 7:26 am
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June 6th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork. I like that quote. Great Post!
July 5th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
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July 7th, 2010 at 1:38 am
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July 7th, 2010 at 4:33 am
85.“I don’t care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!”
(Vidiu Platon)
The author’s name is actually Ovidiu Platon
July 16th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
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July 20th, 2010 at 4:33 am
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(Sam Ewing) “
July 28th, 2010 at 4:19 am
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we say in Germany
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September 11th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
Should #16 be “End of the worlD”?
..sorry 😛
September 21st, 2010 at 4:03 pm
This one is my favorite:
“We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0.”
(Andy Pierson)
September 23rd, 2010 at 3:06 pm
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October 18th, 2010 at 10:40 am
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a freakin genius to understand the simplicity.
October 20th, 2010 at 1:26 am
if the program will not run.. the programmer will run!
November 7th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
only one motto amazed me..that’s from bill gates…
…”if you can’t make it good; at least make it look good!”
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December 14th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
My favorite, as a programmer who works closely with users.
“You know, when you have a program that does something really cool, and you wrote it from scratch, and it took a significant part of your life, you grow fond of it. When it’s finished, it feels like some kind of amorphous sculpture that you’ve created. It has an abstract shape in your head that’s completely independent of its actual purpose. Elegant, simple, beautiful.
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– Nick Foster (“Life as a programmer”)
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January 4th, 2011 at 2:20 pm
Thanks, nice quotes!
Can I translate them to portuguese and cite your page?
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January 24th, 2011 at 4:37 pm
lol at “Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.”
January 27th, 2011 at 5:58 am
Thanks, nice quotes!
Can I translate them to portuguese and cite your page?
February 1st, 2011 at 10:55 am
today’s time if u don’t know about computer then u understand himself that u r now illitrate
February 2nd, 2011 at 10:56 am
My favourite one is
“Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.”
(Rich Cook)
February 9th, 2011 at 9:43 am
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February 14th, 2011 at 8:58 pm
Quote 16 bothers me, using 32 bit for that is crazy…unix time is sensibly measured in 64 bits, so the end of the world is something much later than 2030s…
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March 11th, 2011 at 9:59 am
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March 22nd, 2011 at 1:46 pm
Write a program in c that will enter a number and chack how many time it is to be double so that it will cross a limit of one million.
March 27th, 2011 at 6:18 am
A SMALL REQUEST:
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March 27th, 2011 at 6:20 am
Computer Is Your Friend.Never Portrait it as your Enemy.
March 30th, 2011 at 2:29 am
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April 22nd, 2011 at 11:57 am
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
(Pablo Picasso) – CLASSIC!
“Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.”
(Sam Ewing) – LOVE IT!
“There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.”
(Jeremy S. Anderson) – INTERESTING
“The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.”
(Grady Booch) – TRUE
Very interesting reading, thank you 🙂
Paul
April 24th, 2011 at 6:04 pm
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May 1st, 2011 at 10:08 am
@nit_picker #136 – that would be a pretty good comment if you hadn’t used “to quote” as a noun.
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May 11th, 2011 at 3:19 pm
I agree with bing as the #1 worst of the year. Surely there are worse logos around, but for sheer wannabe importance, Microsoft should have managed better…
May 12th, 2011 at 9:41 am
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…”if you can’t make it good; at least make it look good!”
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June 9th, 2011 at 5:58 pm
You forgot: There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
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July 3rd, 2011 at 1:28 pm
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Java is better becoz it works on all OSes is like saying anal sex is better as it works on all genders ……. Lmao
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May 15th, 2014 at 4:01 pm
Here is one I figured out while learning to program…
“Programming is so awesome when you need to use LOGIC in your code to produce a RANDOM NUMBER”…
And one of the best I read somewhere:
“Error Message: Keyboard not connected. press F1 to continue”
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