The architecture of almost every computer today is designed to optimize the performance of Fortran programs and its operating-system-level sister, C.
Richard Gabriel

“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.”
Bjarne Stroustrup

You know, when you have a program that does something really cool, and you wrote it from scratch, and it took a significant part of your life, you grow fond of it. When it’s finished, it feels like some kind of amorphous sculpture that you’ve created.
It has an abstract shape in your head that’s [...]

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
N. Negroponte

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
D. Parnas
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