Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization