Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
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
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis