“The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.”— Norman Ralph Augustine
“Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701, writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.”— John Backus
“The more you can automate, the more you can get to a lights-out environment, the more you can get people out of the process, the more you can get variability and error out of the process.”— Mark V. Hurd
“As far as I was concerned, the problem was not to get an elegant programming language, but was to get a language that could be translated into efficient code.”— John Backus
“The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.”— Howard Aiken
“The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.”— Jeff Bezos
“Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.”— Edward Tufte
“It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.”— Gottfried Leibniz
“The guiding principle of bombing is to hit the fewest number of targets to produce the greatest effect.”— Giulio Douhet