Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas