Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
Education is the process of learning more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing and is entitled to call oneself 'Doctor'.
Anonymous