Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay