A collection of tech quotes that I keep adding to as I discover more!
Programming is a way of thinking, not a rote skill. Learning about "for" loops is not learning to program, any more than learning about pencils is learning to draw.
-- Bret Victor
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup
In order to understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.
-- ANNON
42 doesn’t change. June 29th 2008 doesn’t change. Points don’t move, dates don’t change, no matter what some bad class libraries may cause you to believe. Even aggregates are values. The set of my favourite foods doesn’t change, i.e. if I prefer different foods in the future, that will be a different set.
-- Rich Hickey on State and Identity
The problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.
-- Joe Armstrong, interviewed in Coders at Work
Programming is not about typing, it’s about thinking.
-- Rich Hickey
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
-- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month
Someday, not being proficient with computers will be considered a form of illiteracy.
-- Naval Ravikant