Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.

My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.

One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.

To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.

A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.

To me, the future is personalization .

All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

It is with artillery that war is made.

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.