Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
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
If C didn't exist, we would be programming in OBOL, PASAL or BASI
Anonymous
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis