Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
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