Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
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
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous