Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso