Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
Alan J. Perlis
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann