Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra