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IT quotes

A collection of inspiring quotes from influential figures in the history of computer science and technology

This is a list of awesome IT quotes. The aim is to collect all relevant quotes said over the history of IT.

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Alan Kay (Computer Scientist, pioneering work on object-oriented programming)
Alan Turing (Computer Scientist, widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence)
Albert Einstein (Scientist theoretical physicist)
Arthur C. Clarke (Science writer, futurist and inventor)
Bill Gates (American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist and founder of Microsoft)
Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and development of the widely used C++ programming language
Bruce Schneier (Cryptographer, computer security professional, and writer)
Don DeLillo (Author American novelist, playwright and essayist)
Don Norman (Co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group, former VP of Research at Apple Computer and author of The Design of Everyday Things.)
Douglas Adams (Author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist.)
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (Computer scientist and an early pioneer in many research areas of computing science. Turing Award Winner)
Edward V. Berard is an American software engineer and consultant for The Object Agency, Inc
Elbert Hubbard (writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher)
Elon Musk (Business magnate, investor, engineer, and inventor.)
Grace Hopper (American computer scientist, a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first compilers. She popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL.)
Harold Abelson (Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a fellow of the IEEE, and a founding director of both Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation)
Jeff Bezos (CEO and President of Amazon)
Jeff Pesis
John Cleese (actor, voice actor, screenwriter, producer, and comedian)
Kathy Sierra (born 1957) is an American programming instructor and game developer
Keith Bostic is an American Software Engineer and one of the key people in the history of Berkeley Software Distribution UNIX and Open Source software
Ken Thompson (computer scientist, early developer of UNIX OS)
Larry Wall is a computer programmer and author. He created the Perl programming language
Linus Torvalds (Finnish American, software engineer and hacker, principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel)
Mark Minasi (Author/speaker/consultant at MR&D)
Martin Fowler (author and speaker on software development)
Omar Bradley (General, US Army)
Pablo Picasso (painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright)
Peter Deutsch is the founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript, a free software PostScript and PDF interpreter
Peter Wegner is was a computer scientist who made significant contributions to both the theory of object-oriented programming during the 1980s and to the relevance of the Church–Turing thesis for empirical aspects of computer science during the 1990s
Richard Stallman launched the GNU Project to create a Unix-like computer operating system composed entirely of free software
Rick Cook is a light fantasy author, best known for his Wizardry series of books
Steve Jobs (Former co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc)
Steve McConnell (author of many software engineering books including “Code Complete”)
Sydney Harris (Journalist for the Chicago Daily News and, later, the Chicago Sun-Times)
Tony Hoare (British computer scientist, winner of the 1980 Turing Award)
Vidiu Platon

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