Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
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
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis