Computer Programming Quotes

“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
― Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman

“I suggested that someone grab Bill Gates and get him to install a new operating system, but apparently he's not a demon" At Reaver's eye roll she nodded. "Right? I was surprised too.”
― Larissa Ione, Reaver

“If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.”
― Émilie Du Châtelet, Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings

“A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.”
― Arthur Bloch, Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things Go Wrong

“In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, "to be, or not to be, that is the question." In the 21st century, "to code, or not to code, that is the challenge.”
― Newton Lee

“An activity originally intended to be performed by low-status, clerical – and more often than not, female – computer programming was gradually and deliberately transformed into a high-status, scientific, and masculine discipline.”
― Nathan L. Ensmenger