Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous