Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens