Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Alan J. Perlis
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton