10 Famous Computer Science Quotes

Feed your mind with great quotes from the best computer nerds of all time. The following quotes are some of my favorite quotes that I shamelessly collected from the internet.

1. “Talk is cheap, show me the code.”
   – Linus Torvalds

2. “If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.”
   – Alan Turing

3. “Code never lies, comments sometimes do.”
   – Ron Jeffries

4. “If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.”
   – Edsger Dijkstra

5. “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”
   – Martin Fowler

6. “Good code is its own best documentation.”
   – Steve McConnell

7. “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
   – Bill Gates

8. “An algorithm must be seen to be believed.”
   – Donald Knuth

9. “When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.”
   – Richard E. Pattis

10. “UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.”
    – Dennis Ritchie

11. “Software is like sex: it’s better when it’s free.”
    – Linus Torvalds

12. “Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
    – Edsger W. Dijkstra

13. “If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.”
    – Linus Torvalds

14. “Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.”
    – Donald Knuth

15. “If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.”
    – Alan Perlis

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