"require a strong minor in some field other than computer science and mathematics... Without real experience in using the computer to get useful results the computer science major is apt to know all about the marvelous tool except how to use it" - Hamming https://gist.io/@llimllib/58812e1ee1d7fa5196b2afc46a566ff6

"One of the reasons that the computer scientists we turn out are more interested in “cute” programming than in results is that many of our courses are being taught by people who have the instincts of a pure mathematician"

"It is unfortunate that in the early stages of computer science it is the talent and ability to handle a sea of minutiae which is important for success"

"What is needed in the higher levels of computer science is not the “black or white” mentality that characterizes so much of mathematics, but rather the judgment and balancing of conflicting aims that characterize engineering."

Which reminds me of this: https://twitter.com/apenwarr/status/1343289617508954113 . Programmers are often unwilling to engage with the results of the systems they build, preferring to engage only with the system itself

"I am often appalled at how little he uses the machine in his own work... we should learn to use the machine at almost every stage of what we are doing."

"To parody our current methods of teaching programming, we give beginners a grammar and a dictionary and tell them that they are now great writers. We seldom, if ever, give them any serious training in style" god I love Hamming so much

"We seem not to teach the "sacredness" of information about people and private company material. My limited observation of computer experts is that they have only the slightest regard for these matters." In government software the standard is slightly better, but only slightly

It often comes down again to the unwillingness of programmers to connect their software systems to the larger world - it is shockingly easy to lose sight of the fact that you have 10 million Americans' information in your database