Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous