Technology Quotes

"Namespaces are one honking great idea, let's do more of those."

"Programming is not about typing, it's about thinking."

"A programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible."

"Code should be written for humans to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

"Every problem in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection."

"Technology serves humanity, not the reverse."

"Technology should serve humanity, not the reverse."

"Technology is a mirror of human values."

"The C++ programming language is a general-purpose programming language with a bias towards systems programming that is a better C, supports data abstraction, object-oriented programming, and generic programming."

"C++ is a language for library developers and for people who like to optimize."

"Software is more important than hardware."

"What is your favorite feature of C++? That's a hard one. It would be either templates or RAII."

"I think of C++ as a living language that needs to evolve to meet new needs."

"The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil."

"The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive because it combines a twentieth-century computing machine with nineteenth-century craftsman discipline."

"One of my favorite programming languages is Lisp."

"I define UNIX as thirty million lines of C code surrounding a kernel written in the early 1970s."

"I believe that the future of computer science is going to be determined by people who understand both the computer and the human side."

"I believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around."

"JavaScript was created in 10 days, but the web needed something faster than Java applets. Sometimes constraints breed innovation."

"Rust represents the future of systems programming because it respects both safety and performance."

"JavaScript's asynchronous nature was ahead of its time, and now the whole world runs on it."

"I wanted a language that was as readable as English but as powerful as C."

"The right tool removes friction from your thinking process."

"The purpose of a language is to make ideas flow from mind to machine."

"Language design is about making the common case easy and the uncommon case possible."

"Programming is about solving problems, not about the language you use."

"I've always believed that the best language is one that gets out of your way."

"The language you choose shapes how you think about problems."

"Node.js was created because I wanted to build scalable network applications"