Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall