Computer Science Quotes

Coding is the new alphabet of the digital age.

A computer is like a violin; you can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

The best error message is the one that never shows up.

Coding is not just for geeks, it’s poetry in motion.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing. – Emo Philips

A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Nelson Mandela

The future belongs to those who code it.

If you think math is hard, try web design.

The best part about being a computer scientist is causing problems, because we’re the ones who get to solve them.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. – Pablo Picasso

Programming is the closest thing we have to magic in the modern world.

I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits. – Kent Beck

Programming is the art of telling a computer what to do, and allowing it to do it faster than you can.

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before. – Bill Gates

Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs

If at first you don’t succeed, call it version 1.0.

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

Programming is not about what you know, it’s about what you can figure out.

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer. Everything else is art. – Donald Knuth

The code you write makes you a programmer. The code you delete makes you a good one. The code you don’t have to write makes you a great one.

I’m not anti-social; I’m just not user-friendly.

The only difference between a programmer and a mad scientist is the lab coat.

In the future, computers may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. – Popular Mechanics, 1949

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. – Joseph Campbell

There are only 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.

Real artists ship. – Steve Jobs

The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.

The art of debugging is figuring out what you really told your program to do, rather than what you thought you told it to do.

I’m not lazy, I’m just on energy-saving mode.

You don’t have to be a genius to code, you just have to be persistent.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. – Mitch Ratcliffe

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before. – Bill Gates

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. – Alan Turing

Talk is cheap. Show me the code. – Linus Torvalds

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

To err is human, but to really mess things up requires a computer.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. – Albert Einstein

Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.

The only thing more dangerous than a programmer with a mission is a programmer with a deadline.

In programming, the magic happens outside your comfort zone.

The code you write today is the legacy you leave behind.

Success is 99% debugging.

Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job. – Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering

Computers are like air conditioners; they stop working properly when you open Windows.

Coding is a skill, debugging is an art.

Hardware: the parts of a computer system that can be kicked.

Never memorize something that you can look up. – Albert Einstein

The computer is a moron. – Peter Drucker

Programming is the closest thing we have to a superpower.