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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 │
├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│“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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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 │
├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│“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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