David E. Goldberg Quotes

Real programmers don’t comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

- Tom Van Vleck

Computer scientist

• Writing

Thank goodness we don’t have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.

- Edsger Dijkstra

Computer Scientist

· Netherlands

• Humor
• Perspective

Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet

- Alan Kay

Computer Scientist

• Artificial

Imitating paper isn’t the goal; the goal is surpassing paper.

- Mark Bernstein

Computer scientist

• Goal
• Internet
• Paper

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

- Ken Thompson

Computer scientist

· USA

• Criminals
• Hackers
• Serious

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

- Alan Perlis

Computer Scientist

· USA

• Language
• Programming

I’m an advocate of human nature.

- Jaron Lanier

Computer scientist

• Human

Everything we have of value as human beings – as a civilization – is the result of our intelligence.

- Stuart J. Russell

Computer scientist

• Civilization
• Human
• Results

In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.

- Alan Perlis

Computer Scientist

· USA

• Machines

In computer science, we stand on each other’s feet.

- Brian Reid

Computer Scientist

• Feet
• Intellectual
• Success