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This is a list of awesome IT quotes. The aim is to collect all relevant quotes said over the history of IT.
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Quotes
│ Quote │ Author │
├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│“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.” Alan Kay (Computer Scientist, pioneering │  │
│ work on object-oriented programming) │  │
│“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.” Alan│  │
│ Turing (Computer Scientist, widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial  │  │
│ intelligence) │  │
│ “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” Albert Einstein (Scientist  │  │
│ theoretical physicist) │  │
│ “Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.” │ Arthur C. Clarke (Science writer, futurist and inventor) │
│“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” Bill Gates  │  │
│ (American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist and founder of Microsoft) │  │
│ “I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no  │  │
│ longer figure out how to use my telephone.” Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the  │  │
│ creation and development of the widely used C++ programming language │  │
│"Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect." │  │
│ Bruce Schneier (Cryptographer, computer security professional, and writer) │  │
│ “This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens  │ Don DeLillo (Author American novelist, playwright and essayist) │
│ universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature.” │  │
│ “It’s not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build  │  │
│products that bring joy and excitement, pleasure and fun, and yes, beauty to people’s lives.” Don Norman (Co-founder  │  │
│ of Nielsen Norman Group, former VP of Research at Apple Computer and author of The Design of Everyday Things.) │  │
│ “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.” Douglas Adams (Author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist.) │  │
│“Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try│Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (Computer scientist and an early pioneer in many research areas of  │
│ to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering  │ computing science. Turing Award Winner) │
│ how that boundary should be moved foward.” │  │
│ “Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.” │Edward V. Berard is an American software engineer and consultant for The Object Agency,  │
│  │ Inc. │
│ “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” │ Elbert Hubbard (writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher) │
│ “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” Elon Musk (Business magnate,  │  │
│ investor, engineer, and inventor.) │  │
│ “If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.” │Grace Hopper (American computer scientist, a pioneer of computer programming who invented│
│  │one of the first compilers. She popularized the idea of machine-independent programming  │
│  │ languages, which led to the development of COBOL.) │
│ “Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.” │Harold Abelson (Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a fellow│
│  │ of the IEEE, and a founding director of both Creative Commons and the Free Software  │
│  │ Foundation) │
│“A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.” Jeff │  │
│ Bezos (CEO and President of Amazon) │  │
│ “Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.” │ Jeff Pesis │
│ “Technology frightens me to death. It’s designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with  │ John Cleese (actor, voice actor, screenwriter, producer, and comedian) │
│instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.”│  │
│ “It doesn't matter what you know, what matters is when you know” │ Kathy Sierra (born 1957) is an American programming instructor and game developer. │
│ “Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.” │Keith Bostic is an American Software Engineer and one of the key people in the history of│
│  │ Berkeley Software Distribution UNIX and Open Source software. │
│ “One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.” │ Ken Thompson (computer scientist, early developer of UNIX OS) │
│ “It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.” Larry Wall is a computer programmer and author. He created the  │  │
│ Perl programming language. │  │
│“Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because  │  │
│ it is fun to program.” Linus Torvalds (Finnish American, software engineer and hacker, principal force behind the  │  │
│ development of the Linux kernel) │  │
│ “If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and  │ Mark Minasi (Author/speaker/consultant at MR&D) │
│ the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more.’” │  │
│ “Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.” │ Martin Fowler (author and speaker on software development) │
│ “If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.” │ Omar Bradley (General, US Army) │
│ “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” │ Pablo Picasso (painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and  │
│  │ playwright) │
│ “To iterate is human, to recurse divine.” │ Peter Deutsch is the founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript, a free  │
│  │ software PostScript and PDF interpreter. │
│ “It is impossible to fully specify or test an interactive system designed to respond to external inputs.” │Peter Wegner is was a computer scientist who made significant contributions to both the  │
│  │ theory of object-oriented programming during the 1980s and to the relevance of the  │
│  │ Church–Turing thesis for empirical aspects of computer science during the 1990s. │
│ “People said I should accept the world.to create a Unix-like computer operating system composed entirely of free  │  │
│ software │  │
│“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and  │ Rick Cook is a light fantasy author, best known for his Wizardry series of books. │
│ the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.” │  │
│ “Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.” Steve Jobs (Former  │  │
│ co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc) │  │
│“Good code is its own best documentation. As you’re about to add a comment, ask yourself, ‘How can I improve the code  │ Steve McConnell (author of many software engineering books including “Code Complete”) │
│ so that this comment isn’t needed?'” │  │
│“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.” │ Sydney Harris (Journalist for the Chicago Daily News and, later, the Chicago Sun-Times) │
│ “There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no  │ Tony Hoare (British computer scientist, winner of the 1980 Turing Award) │
│deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method  │  │
│ is far more difficult.” │  │
│ “I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!” │ Vidiu Platon │
│ Quote │ Author │
├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│“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.”  │  │
│ Alan Kay (Computer Scientist, pioneering work on object-oriented programming) │  │
│“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that │  │
│it was human.” Alan Turing (Computer Scientist, widely considered to be the father of theoretical │  │
│ computer science and artificial intelligence) │  │
│“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” Albert Einstein│  │
│ (Scientist theoretical physicist) │  │
│ “Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.” │ Arthur C. Clarke (Science writer, futurist and inventor) │
│ “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by  │  │
│ weight.” Bill Gates (American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist and founder of  │  │
│ Microsoft) │  │
│“I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true  │  │
│ because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.” Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish  │  │
│ computer scientist, most notable for the creation and development of the widely used C++  │  │
│ programming language │  │
│ "Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with  │  │
│ dignity and respect." Bruce Schneier (Cryptographer, computer security professional, and writer) │  │
│“This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand.  │ Don DeLillo (Author American novelist, playwright and essayist) │
│ It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature.” │  │
│“It’s not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also │  │
│need to build products that bring joy and excitement, pleasure and fun, and yes, beauty to people’s│  │
│ lives.” Don Norman (Co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group, former VP of Research at Apple Computer  │  │
│ and author of The Design of Everyday Things.) │  │
│“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.” Douglas Adams (Author,  │  │
│ scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist.) │  │
│ “Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine  │Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (Computer scientist and an early pioneer in many research areas of  │
│problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this,│ computing science. Turing Award Winner) │
│ because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved foward.” │  │
│ “Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.” │Edward V. Berard is an American software engineer and consultant for The Object Agency,  │
│  │ Inc. │
│“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary│ Elbert Hubbard (writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher) │
│ man.” │  │
│“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” Elon Musk  │  │
│ (Business magnate, investor, engineer, and inventor.) │  │
│ “If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get  │Grace Hopper (American computer scientist, a pioneer of computer programming who invented│
│ permission.” │one of the first compilers. She popularized the idea of machine-independent programming  │
│  │ languages, which led to the development of COBOL.) │
│ “Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.” │Harold Abelson (Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a fellow│
│  │ of the IEEE, and a founding director of both Creative Commons and the Free Software  │
│  │ Foundation) │
│“A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard │  │
│ things well.” Jeff Bezos (CEO and President of Amazon) │  │
│ “Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.” │ Jeff Pesis │
│“Technology frightens me to death. It’s designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they │ John Cleese (actor, voice actor, screenwriter, producer, and comedian) │
│always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is │  │
│ why almost no technology ever works.” │  │
│ “It doesn't matter what you know, what matters is when you know” │ Kathy Sierra (born 1957) is an American programming instructor and game developer. │
│ “Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.” │Keith Bostic is an American Software Engineer and one of the key people in the history of│
│  │ Berkeley Software Distribution UNIX and Open Source software. │
│ “One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.” │ Ken Thompson (computer scientist, early developer of UNIX OS) │
│ “It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.” Larry Wall is a computer programmer and  │  │
│ author. He created the Perl programming language. │  │
│“Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the  │  │
│public, but because it is fun to program.” Linus Torvalds (Finnish American, software engineer and│  │
│ hacker, principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel) │  │
│ “If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you  │ Mark Minasi (Author/speaker/consultant at MR&D) │
│ food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more.’” │  │
│“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows│ Martin Fowler (author and speaker on software development) │
│ where you live.” │  │
│“If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be  │ Omar Bradley (General, US Army) │
│ our executioner.” │  │
│ “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” │ Pablo Picasso (painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and  │
│  │ playwright) │
│ “To iterate is human, to recurse divine.” │ Peter Deutsch is the founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript, a free  │
│  │ software PostScript and PDF interpreter. │
│ “It is impossible to fully specify or test an interactive system designed to respond to external  │Peter Wegner is was a computer scientist who made significant contributions to both the  │
│ inputs.” │ theory of object-oriented programming during the 1980s and to the relevance of the  │
│  │ Church–Turing thesis for empirical aspects of computer science during the 1990s. │
│ “People said I should accept the world.to create a Unix-like computer operating system composed  │  │
│ entirely of free software │  │
│ “Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better  │ Rick Cook is a light fantasy author, best known for his Wizardry series of books. │
│ idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the  │  │
│ universe is winning.” │  │
│“Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.” Steve  │  │
│ Jobs (Former co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc) │  │
│“Good code is its own best documentation. As you’re about to add a comment, ask yourself, ‘How can │ Steve McConnell (author of many software engineering books including “Code Complete”) │
│ I improve the code so that this comment isn’t needed?'” │  │
│ “The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to  │ Sydney Harris (Journalist for the Chicago Daily News and, later, the Chicago Sun-Times) │
│ think like computers.” │  │
│“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there  │ Tony Hoare (British computer scientist, winner of the 1980 Turing Award) │
│ 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.” │  │
│ “I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!” │ Vidiu Platon │
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