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* ℙ contains the problems we can solve. ℕℙ symbolizes the problems man needs to solve to efficiently structure and optimize his world. The ℙ = ℕℙ question asks whether the computers built by man's ingenuity have the power to solve the problems formed by nature's complexity. | |||
* "The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute authority to arrange a stage or field of battle and to command such unswervingly dutiful actors or troops." ― Joseph Weizenbaum | |||
* "A supercomputer is a machine for turning a compute-bound problem into an I/O-bound problem." --Ken Batcher | |||
* "I object to doing things that computers can do." -- Olin Shivers | |||
* "Shouting 'Fire in the hole!' every time I checkin is not team building." - @stevej | * "Shouting 'Fire in the hole!' every time I checkin is not team building." - @stevej | ||
* "We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and working code." -- David Clark regarding IETF | |||
* "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." - Rick Cook | * "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." - Rick Cook | ||
* "Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material." - Alan Kay. | * "Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material." - Alan Kay. | ||
* "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." - Edward V Berard | * "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." - Edward V Berard | ||
* "A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant." - Alan J. Perlis. | * "A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant." - Alan J. Perlis. | ||
* "A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors." - Waldi Ravens. | * "A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors." - Waldi Ravens. | ||
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* "Talk is cheap. Show me the code." - Linus Torvalds | * "Talk is cheap. Show me the code." - Linus Torvalds | ||
* "C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success." - Dennis M. Ritchie. | * "C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success." - Dennis M. Ritchie. | ||
* "You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families." - Jim McCarthy | * "You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families." - Jim McCarthy | ||
* "PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil, perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals." - Jon Ribbens | * "PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil, perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals." - Jon Ribbens | ||