Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders.
Anonymous
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra