Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks