Scientist Quotes

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.
Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.
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