

“When human beings acquired language, we learned not just how to listen but how to speak. When we gained literacy, we learned not just how to read but how to write. And as we move into an increasingly digital reality, we must learn not just how to use programs but how to make them. In the emerging highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It’s really that simple: Program, or be programmed.”
― Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age
― Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age

“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart

“The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.”
― Selected Papers on Computer Science
― Selected Papers on Computer Science
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