Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I Hate Programming.
Anonymous
I Hate Programming.
I Hate Programming.
It works!
I Love Programming.
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
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
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous