Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
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
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay