Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous