Computer religion

“There’s a good part of Computer Science that’s like magic. Unfortunately there’s a bad part of Computer Science that’s like religion.” - Hal Abelson

“The three golden rules to ensure computer security are: do not own a computer; do not power it on; and do not use it” Robert Morris

“Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.” — Stan Kelly-Bootle

“Sufficiently advanced trolling is indistinguishable from thought leadership.”

“A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.” Perlis

– What do we want? – Now! – When do we want it? – Fewer race conditions! @wellendonner

“When we write programs that ‘learn’, it turns out that we do and they don’t.” Perlis

“Don’t learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.”

“When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb.” — Steve Haflich