Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann