Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous