Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
Anonymous
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski