Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).
Edsger W. Dijkstra
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis