Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout