Awesome IT Quotes
This is a list of awesome IT quotes. The aim is to collect all relevant quotes said over the history of IT.
Contents
- Alan Kay
- Alan Turing
- Albert Einstein
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Bill Gates
- Bjarne Stroustrup
- Bruce Schneier
- Don DeLillo
- Don Norman
- Douglas Adams
- Edsger Dijkstra
- Edward V. Berard
- Elbert Hubbard
- Elon Musk
- Grace Hopper
- Harold Abelson
- Jeff Pesis
- John Cleese
- Kathy Sierra
- Keith Bostic
- Ken Thompson
- Larry Wall
- Linus Torvalds
- Mark Minasi
- Martin Fowler
- Omar Bradley
- Pablo Picasso
- Peter Deutsch
- Peter Wegner
- Richard Stallman
- Rick Cook
- Steve Jobs
- Steve McConnell
- Sydney Harris
- Tony Hoare
- Vidiu Platon
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Quotes
| Quote | Author |
|---|---|
| “Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.” “Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.” |
Alan Kay (Computer Scientist, pioneering work on object-oriented programming) |
| “A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.” “Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.” “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” “Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible.” “If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.” “Sometimes it is the people who no one imagined anything of who do the things that no one can imagine” |
Alan Turing (Computer Scientist, widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence) |
| “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.” “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” |
Albert Einstein (Scientist theoretical physicist) |
| “Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.” | Arthur C. Clarke (Science writer, futurist and inventor) |
| “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” “The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.” "Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent" “The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.” ”Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” ”The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.” |
Bill Gates (American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist and founder of Microsoft) |
| “I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.” “C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.” “Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.” “A program that has not been tested does not work.” |
Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and development of the widely used C++ programming language |