Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
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
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous