Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
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
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton