Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis