Quotes on Computer Software

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

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

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this," well, that would be enough immortality for me.

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

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.

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

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.