The question ofwhether computerscan think
is like thequestion of whethersubmarines can swim.
Any sufficientlyadvanced bugis indistinguishable
fromafeature.
Computers are goodat followinginstructions, but
notat readingyour mind.
Being forced towrite commentsimproves code, because
it is easier to fixa crock thanto explain it.
There is nothingso useless asdoing efficiently
that whichshould not bedone at all.
Any fool can writecode that a computer canunderstand. Good
programmers writecode that humanscan understand.
A complex systemthat works is invariablyfound to have
evolved froma simplesystem that worked.
There are only 10kinds of people inthe world; those
that understandbinary, and thosewho don't.
A Java classis where we teachobjects how to behave.