Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
Dennis Ritchie