Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
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
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas