6 quotes found
“Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.”
“Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.”
“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
“Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.”
“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.”
“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.”
