Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
Never trust a programmer in a suit.
Anonymous
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis