Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
You can have a negative percent chance of succeeding in a task. For example, if you have a -5% chance of succeeding, not only will you fail every time you make an attempt, you will also fail 1 in 20 times that you don't even try.
Anonymous
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
It's interface, not in your face.
Kai Krause
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan J. Perlis