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 Awesome IT Quotes !Awesome (https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg) (https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)
This is a list of awesome IT quotes. The aim is to collect all relevant quotes said over the history of IT.
Contents
- Alan Kay (#alan-kay)
- Alan Turing (#alan-turing)
- Albert Einstein (#albert-einstein)
- Arthur C. Clarke (#arthur-c-clarke)
- Bill Gates (#bill-gates)
- Bjarne Stroustrup (#bjarne-stroustrup)
- Bruce Schneier (#bruce-schneier)
- Don DeLillo (#don-delillo)
- Don Norman (#don-norman)
- Douglas Adams (#douglas-adams)
- Edsger Dijkstra (#edsger-dijkstra)
- Edward V. Berard (#edward-v-berard)
- Elbert Hubbard (#elbert-hubbard)
- Elon Musk (#elon-musk)
- Grace Hopper (#grace_hopper)
- Harold Abelson (#harold-abelson)
- Jeff Pesis (#jeff-pesis)
- John Cleese (#john-cleese)
- Kathy Sierra (#kathy-sierra)
- Keith Bostic (#keith-bostic)
- Ken Thompson (#ken-thompson)
- Larry Wall (#larry-wall)
- Linus Torvalds (#linus-torvalds)
- Mark Minasi (#mark-minasi)
- Martin Fowler (#martin-fowler)
- Omar Bradley (#omar-bradley)
- Pablo Picasso (#pablo-picasso)
- Peter Deutsch (#peter-deutsch)
- Peter Wegner (#peter-wegner)
- Richard Stallman (#richard-stallman)
- Rick Cook (#rick-cook)
- Steve Jobs (#steve-jobs)
- Steve McConnell (#steve-mcconnell)
- Sydney Harris (#sydney-harris)
- Tony Hoare (#tony-hoare)
- Vidiu Platon (#vidiu-platon)
Contribution Guidelines
Contribution guidelines can be found here (CONTRIBUTING.md)
Quotes
│ Quote │ Author │
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│“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 universal extinction on the other.  │ Don DeLillo (Author American novelist, playwright and essayist) │
│ 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 to work as closely as possible at │Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (Computer scientist and an early pioneer in many research areas of  │
│ the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved foward.” │ computing science. Turing Award Winner) │
│ “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 instruction booklets that are written │ John Cleese (actor, voice actor, screenwriter, producer, and comedian) │
│ 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 the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, │ Mark Minasi (Author/speaker/consultant at MR&D) │
│ 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 the universe trying to build bigger │ Rick Cook is a light fantasy author, best known for his Wizardry series of books. │
│ 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 so that this comment isn’t needed?'”│ Steve McConnell (author of many software engineering books including “Code Complete”) │
│ “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 deficiencies, and the other way is to  │ Tony Hoare (British computer scientist, winner of the 1980 Turing Award) │
│ 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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