Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler