Computer Science Quotes

The great object of the physical sciences is to explain the phenomena of nature by the fewest and simplest principles.

A little copying is better than a little dependency.

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from; furthermore, if you do not like any of them, you can always invent your own.

The three great virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

The Internet is not a technology; it's a philosophy.

The computer can be a medium for communication, not just a tool for computation.

A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

MapReduce is a programming model designed for processing large data sets with parallelizable jobs across a large cluster.

I don't think of myself as a woman in computer science. I think of myself as a computer scientist.

Abstraction is the key to managing complexity in software design.

Computing is not just about machines; it's about empowering people to solve the world's problems.

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

I consider that my life's work is to make sure that there will be free software for all users.

There are only two kinds of languages: those people complain about and those nobody uses.

Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.

Don't you hate it when you're trying to debug a program and you realize that the bug is in your understanding of the problem, not in the code?

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.