Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development.
Anonymous
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
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