Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick