The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.
I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.
I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
If at first you don't succeed, Call an airstrike.
I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.
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.
Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
We've created life in our own image.
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.
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!
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. The first method is far more difficult.
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.
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