Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke