Peter Landin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth.
There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.
I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.
Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.

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