Maurice Wilkes

The joy of the first program running is indescribable.

Computers will change the world more than the steam engine.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.

I never imagined the scale of what we started.

The future of computing lies in software as much as hardware.

Teamwork built the first computers.

Innovation requires bold decisions.

The EDSAC's success was a team effort.

Computing ethics must evolve with technology.

Persistence is the mother of invention in computing.

I owe much to my mentors in physics.

Microprogramming was a breakthrough we needed.

Life is like programming: full of bugs to fix.

The computer age dawned in Cambridge.

Education in computing starts with fundamentals.

We built EDSAC with limited resources but unlimited vision.

Artificial intelligence is the next frontier.

Regret nothing; we changed history.

The von Neumann architecture endures.

Humor helps in the face of technical failures.