Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly