Security is a state of mind.
— NSA Security Manual
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.
— Maurice Wilkes discovers debugging, 1949
With diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly.
— Tom Duff
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
— Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger in The Elements of Programming Style.
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
— Bill Gates
Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.
— Rob Pike
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.
— Ken Thompson
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
— Hal Abelson
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
— Jean Giraudoux
Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
— Ai WeiWei
We don’t know the spiritual advancements that long term veganism - I mean not over years or even decades, but over generations, would have on human life. It would be certainly a different civilisation, and the first one in the whole of our history that would truly deserve the title of being a civilisation.
— Donald Watson