“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” #Voltaire

“Perl users were unable to write programs more accurately than those using a language designed by chance.” https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2089155.2089159

“Good mathematicians see analogies between theorems; great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.” #StefanBanach

“Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.” #Dijkstra

“Merely adding features does not make it easier for users to do things — it just makes the manual thicker.” http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/unix_prog_design.pdf

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.” #Nietzsche

“Chekhov said, and Saul Bellow very much agreed with this, that everything he read seemed not short enough.” #MartinAmis

“Technology is the active human interface with the material world.” #UrsulaKLeGuin http://www.ursulakleguinarchive.com/Note-Technology.html

“Any equation with reasonably smooth solutions can be regarded as defining some kind of trade-off among its variable quantities.” #MarvinMinsky http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/TuringLecture/TuringLecture.html

“Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.” #DavidGelernter

Michel de #Montaigne on #AGI: “Mankind is mad — he doesn’t know how to make a mite, yet he forges gods by the dozen.” (“L’homme est bien insensé: Il ne saurait forger un ciron, et forge des Dieux à douzaines.”)

“Complete list of data structures for almost all practical programs: array, linked list, hash table, binary tree.” #RobPike http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/pikestyle

“The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and the way we express what we think.” #Abelson and #Sussman, #SICP

“The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.” #AdaLovelace

“A graphic should not show only the leaves; it should show the branches as well as the entire tree.” #JacquesBertin

“Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.” #BertrandRussell

“Modular construction is a powerful strategy for controlling complexity in engineering design.” #Abelson and #Sussman, #SICP

“To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated. Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.” #BrunoMunari

“Originality is dependent on the obscurity of your sources.” #JohnHegarty

“We have to keep it crisp, disentangled, and simple if we refuse to be crushed by the complexities of our own making.” #Dijkstra

“The three works can be seen as the earliest known 'Internet memes.'” https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/apr/30/emoticon-emoji-text-ii-ascii/

“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.” #JulesVerne

“I mix mathematics and art every day.” #BenoitMandelbrot

“One of the key tools of science remains detailed visual observation.” http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0002nh

“Understanding perception is critical to effective visualization design.” #Heer and #Bostock https://www.cs.kent.edu/~javed/class-P2P12F/papers-2012/PAPER2012-2010-MTurk-CHI.pdf

“Efficiency of computation is not the same as efficiency of understanding.” #ConcreteMathematics http://t.co/of65S1F1dZ

“The idea that the amount of information is an important determinant of beauty has a long history in aesthetics.” https://pages.ucsd.edu/~pwinkiel/reber-schwarz-winkielman-beauty-PSPR-2004.pdf

“I don't think object-oriented programming is a structuring paradigm that meets my standards of elegance.” #Dijkstra

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” #Picasso

“What can be done? Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work.” #CharlieKaufman http://guru.bafta.org/charlie-kaufman-screenwriters-lecture-video

“Metalinguistic abstraction — establishing new languages — plays an important role in all branches of engineering design.” #SICP

“The average customer of the computing industry has been served so poorly that he expects his system to crash.” #Dijkstra https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EWD1304.html

“For a sucessful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled.” #Feynman

“You have a right to stop coding, everything you type will be used against you during debugging.” #MaximeChevalierBoisvert

“The program itself is the only complete description of what the program will do.” #PJDavis

“Knives still come with sharp ends. Instruments are still hard for beginners to play.” https://aphyr.com/posts/287-asynchronous-replication-with-failover

“I see art as communication.” Italo Calvino https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/06/10/italo-calvino-on-writing/

“Nothing is more fertile than these illicit liaisons, nothing gives more pleasure to the connoisseur.” #EdwardFrenkel, Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

“The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.” #DonaldKnuth

“If a job's worth doing, it's worth writing a script to do it for you.” Unknown

“The choice of Lisp was a bold one: it alone has been responsible for the rapid development of tremendous function in #Multics #Emacs.” https://hack.org/mc/texts/multics-emacs.txt

“I have no advice for the fucking kid that wants to play everyone else's music and be famous for it.” #Deadmau5

“We humans are not very good at identifying the heuristics we ourselves use.” #JohnMcCarthy

Two remarkable lines of Haskell: sins = int coss coss = 1 - int sins #DougMcIlroy https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/powser.html

“I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe.” #BuckminsterFuller

“Information theory will continue to matter because it's a powerful, general, technology-independent way of thinking.” http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/note.html

“They seem to have learned the habit of cowering before authority even when not actually threatened. [...] I decided not to learn this particular lesson.” #RichardStallman https://www.gnu.org/gnu/road-to-gnu.en.html

“Languages should be designed not by adding features but by removing weaknesses that make more features seem necessary.” #Abelson and #Sussman

“First actual case of bug being found.” Grace Hopper, 1947 https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/worlds-first-computer-bug/

“At that moment, Anton became enlightened.” https://gist.github.com/jackrusher/5653669