Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
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
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.