The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user.
程序最重要的属性是它是否实现了用户的意图。
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
如果你没有至少90%的时间失败，那么你的目标还不够高。
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
一门不影响你编程思维的语言不值得学习。
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
预测未来的最好方法就是创造未来。
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Programming is an unnatural act.
If you can imagine a society in which the computer- robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?