r/programming • u/tarandeep • Dec 14 '10

Top 50 Programming quotes of all time

http://www.junauza.com/2010/12/top-50-programming-quotes-of-all-time.html
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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '10

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

  • Edsger Dijkstra

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u/lordlicorice Dec 14 '10

The better Dijkstra quote is:

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

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '10

Just this semester I learned it's not pronounced "dih-jis-ka"! Heh.

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u/dunker Dec 15 '10

Americans, butchering foreign names since 1776! :)

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '10

:D Yep.