Favourite Quotes
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Key
If you can’t explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don’t understand it very well, or it’s not all that worthwhile in the first place.
Albert Einstein
Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
Isaac Asimov
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde
Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
Carl Sagan
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
Edsger Dijkstra
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.
Niklaus Wirth
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
Frank Zappa
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
Donald Knuth
My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.
Bertrand Russell
Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. Much of the complexity he must master is arbitrary complexity ,.. because they were designed by different people, rather than by God.
Fred Brooks
Misfortune is the best fortune.
Rejection by all is victory.
Vālmīki
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
Edsger Dijkstra
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell
I managed to get a quick PhD - though when I got it I knew almost nothing about physics. But I did learn one big thing: that no one knows everything, and you don't have to.
Steven Weinberg
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge
Henry Spencer
Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the borderline between the two respective domains.
Maurits Escher
විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය බොහෝ දෙනා අදහස් කරන පරිදි බහුශ්‍රැතභාවය බෙදා දෙන තැනක් නොවේ. විද්‍යාර්ථින් විසින් තෝරා ගන්නා ලද ඒ ඒ විෂයට නිවැරදි සම්ප්‍රාප්තිය ලබා දෙන ආයතනයකි. අවුරුදු තුන හතරක් විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයක ගත කිරීමෙන් ලද හැකි බහුශ්‍රැතභාවය කුමක්ද? එයින් ලබා ගත හැක්කේ ඊට නිවැරදි මග පෙන්වීම පමණකි. බහුශ්‍රැතයෙකු විය හැක්කේ ඒ මාර්ගය දිගේ බොහෝ කලක් ගමන් කිරීමෙනි. කෙනෙකු බහුශ්‍රැතයෙකු වීම ඇරඹෙන්නේ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයෙන් පිට වූ තැන සිටය.
කේ. ජයතිලක
Man only likes to count his troubles, he doesn't calculate his happiness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Youth is not a time of life – it is a state of mind.
Konosuke Matsushita