Hal Abelson > Quotes

“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
― Hal Abelson, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

“There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.”
― Hal Abelson

“If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.”
― Hal Abelson