Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
Dennis Ritchie
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob
Don't code today what you can't debug tomorrow
Anonymous
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall