Canadian Computer Scientist Quotes

Brian Kernighan

Bill Buxton

Tim Bray

The practice of first developing a clear and precise definition of a process without regard for efficiency, and then using it as a guide and a test in exploring equivalent processes possessing other characteristics, such as greater efficiency, is very common in mathematics. It is a very fruitful practice which should not be blighted by premature emphasis on efficiency in computer execution.

Kenneth E. Iverson

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

Brian Kernighan

The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday.

The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet's future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and who can say what. It's a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord's pleasure and fear his anger.