The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
Edsger W. DijkstraStichwörter: simile artificial-intelligence ai computer-science
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan KayStichwörter: humor science arrogance computer-science edsger-dijkstra edsger-w-dijkstra edsger-wybe-dijkstra
Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.
Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange.
Some, downright weird.
But then again, you’d have to be.
To spend hundreds and hundreds of hours sitting in front of a computer screen staring at lines of information is pretty tedious. More like a computer programmer. And no matter how cool the Matrix made looking at code seem, computer programmers are even weirder than authors.
Stichwörter: authors strangeness weirdness computer-science writing-process
C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.
Dennis M. RitchieStichwörter: computer-science
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.
Donald Ervin KnuthStichwörter: programming computer-science
...if you aren't, at any given time, scandalized by code you wrote five or even three years ago, you're not learning anywhere near enough
Nick BlackStichwörter: computer-science funny-but-true
I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out it was an awful lot of fun. Of course the paying customers got shafted every now and then and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful error-free perfect use of these machines. I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them setting them off in new directions and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all I hope we don’t become missionaries. Don’t feel as if you’re Bible sales-men. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don’t feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What’s in your hands I think and hope is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it that you can make it more.
Alan J. PerlisStichwörter: inspirational programming computer-science
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant
to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap
bubble?
Stichwörter: programming computer-science sicp
The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user.
C.A.R. HoareStichwörter: programming computer-science
In search," Urs (Hölzle) believed, "the discussion was really, How can we outdistance our current system and make it look laughable? That's the best definition of success: if a new system comes out and everyone says, 'Wow, I can't believe we put up with that old thing because it was so primitive and limited compared to this.
Douglas EdwardsStichwörter: computer-science
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