9. Some quotations

• Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1851). Wrote programms for the first computers by Babbage.
  It can do only what we know to order it to do. ^9.1
• Edsger W. Dijkstra (1969)
  Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence.
• Edsger W. Dijkstra (1986)
  The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
• Tony Hoare
  I don't know what the programming language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called FORTRAN.
• John v. Neumann
  If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how comlicated life is.
• Peter Cochrane (Forschungschef der British Telecom), 1998 über Minderheitenschutz^9.2
  Es gibt 6 Milliarden Menschen auf der Welt - und 14 Milliarden Mikroprozessoren. Wir sind jetzt schon in der Minderheit.