Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis