Skip to content

Richard P. Gabriel Quotes

born 1949 United States

Richard P. Gabriel (born October 31, 1949) is an American computer scientist known for his work in computing related to the programming language Lisp, and especially Common Lisp.

United States
Computer scientists

Random Richard P. Gabriel quote

4 quotes

Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it.”

It is only when we forget the ideas behind building something wonderful that we can actually do the building that makes things wonderful.”

Habitability is the characteristic of source code that enables programmers, coders, bug-fixers, and people coming to the code later in its life to understand its construction and intentions and to change it comfortably and confidently.

reuse is properly a process issue, and individual organizations need to decide whether they believe in its long-term benefits.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard P. Gabriel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.