Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous