top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
Bugs,
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Bugs quotes
"Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it."
"My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated."
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"
"It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs."
"I came from the country, and when I came to the city, I was ridin' high, you know. I was seeing more lights than I ever dreamed to shine in the world. 'Cos where I came from, there wasn't too many lights. Bugs made a lot of light, but after that there wasn't no lights."
"The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk."
"Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs in flats, etc., were used to obtain a lot of information about what counter-intelligence was interested in."
Explore more quotes by Donald Knuth
"The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent."
"God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue."
"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."
"The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language."
"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."
"The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish."
"In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field."
"The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located."
"People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones."
bottom of page