Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
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
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates