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“On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
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“That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.”
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“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live”
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“when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.”
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“The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.”
― Selected Papers on Computer Science
― Selected Papers on Computer Science
Brainy’s 2025 Year in Books
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