Code snippets, ideas and events from IT related projects

by Robert Gawron

A bunch of programmers quotes, part 2

The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

People love discussing things that don't matter, because it's so easy to have opinion about those things.

Bjarne Stroustrup

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

Donald Knuth

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

Ken Thompson

We see only what we know.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.

Ken Thompson

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