Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman