I consider to paradigms as universally recognized scientific achievements that, for a time, provide model problems and solutions for a community of researchers.
Thomas Samuel Kuhn.
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra.
Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
Alan Curtis Kay, Hong Kong press conference.
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
Alan Curtis Kay.
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (attributed to).
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Curtis Kay.
Ask not what you can do to your data structures, but rather ask what your data structures can do for you.
Anónimo.
A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.
Charles M. Schulz.
I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.
Paul Theroux.
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
George Mikes.
I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.
David Byrne.
Lists have always implied social order.
David Viscott.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Victor Hugo.
