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Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

— Edsger W. Dijkstra


Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

— Harold Abelson, The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

— Martin Fowler


Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail.

— Max Kanat-Alexander, Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software

A computer is a clock with benefits.

— Paul Ford, What Is Code?
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