Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth