Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
People who find Wiki-markup too difficult to use and need a WYSIWYG-editor shouldn't be using a Wiki in the first place.
Anonymous
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich